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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times, 1890-1-16, Page 7I S E remembere , abruptly raising Two Remarkable ptories of Woman's (bur - y0 C• iT�age—Coiftmanding Shi s and dandling added. , me . e Norris Rat down within a respecti'ul d'u• $eYolYexe Like Men. tame of Mr. Pilkington on the edge of A • CHAP, Its,-eSaQxEx'a Ctrtax . yes hal haute all her thoughts --though 4 1. to wltiola she bad never given expression -hes °T helittleinkyparlourinTookhiewuregrew ooui.t not have Foaohoupon a more genial More inky their ever ; for Abel Norrie at nub j eat. Could he possibly comprehend thereat hii old (leek copying diligently from her? morning till night,. Re wee oompletely fu , It had only been from a strong sense of his element. ' duty that] she had eueceaafnlly reeieted the Not unfrequeutly--more often towarda temptation to leave Abel Norrie months ago', the afternoon- Sidney Tweet* would look p in - and sometimes, Rosa being there he and accept acute ',Teethe t e pure Leaden , e , R 8 "fern ehe could breaths the country try would exchange a few words with her. And air that would remind her of happier days. if the young girl wan about, Sidney never How she longed to look upon the "open failed to enquire after her of the old clerk. heath and wooded Mei" Would .they nob. They eemetirno* met --tab dile wee we rare revive -did nob the very words revive - accedence -be Near .quare or Lincoln's ban her memories of childhood? Stie bent her Fields ; for Roes was ..such impreeaed wltb heed thoughtfully. " What shall I do? the number of osrriaow§ which drove up to . said wbo in a low vole°. ', Manton/the door of TrManton/ awl Treaeh s i She eagerly desired to °onfeee her craving cffioe, They suggested elaibe a fashionable' ter woe, a bonne, Bab she. thought again of reception. From ten in the morning until Abel Norrie and the lonely life he would four o cloak in the afternoon clients never .lead witnoat her. He had befriended her ceased to come and go. She tried to gain for twelve yearn past: he had never ceased bnio pee of sir Pilkingtonamore than ono, ; to exert himself, for her sake, to find work b„DJ , enly y succeeded in oro iii ng a t s arab a tbab would lift them out of their poverty oh s ben -fig re when atspp1ng rn. Some chow of gratitude, sums racrrfes of bin ar g . forownbappineas,was due to one whose e weeita pa*eed by, Ose afternoon gels abuege fav, cab oflove for her, had e nix o'clock, when the days were s been ao patliotio. growing longer, Rea strolled round Newt "i Take you time,” eau Sidney, noticing Sgaare, lei was au afternoon that she long her heelteelea, "to arrive at somo declaim, Eventamay pne*ibty decide for you; ao.do nob auewer ampaleively. You would do well to talk the matter over with Mr. Norrie; and Kben you bane made up your mind- after Retelling to his view of the aubjeat-- you ou again omit your lawyer.-Whae dote my oileab eay to that `t" She will follow your Adv Qa," Excellent 1 And now, said Sidney. "won'. you came sad aft down in the cliental' room ? Mr. Norris le at the cfi'iee. You can wait there, if you like, ad go home with him," "The cheats' room!" said Rasa with an eager look, " t should like to eeo that." While talking together, they had wand ered out of Now Square into Lincoln's Inn Fielda; and they now found tbemnelvea at the very entrance to Trench, t'tlkington, and Trenoir'e caw. Ib had atom 000nrred to Rasa that a peep beide the o'd house remembered; the tree* were beglaning to grow green, end the sparrows chirped over the gearing summer. Sbe was sauntor:af within thew) legal precioot e, leap in thought for the spring days revived, whir greater vivtduess mach season, the imperfect reran. hum of her childhood; and in the vista of thane gaiety saenee there had reappeared a handsome youth, heroompeulon in gunny Beide and shady weoda. Tide youth bad now grown into a likeness of Sidney Trench, and oke began to et:ociate him with this oauipsidea, se though toay were cue and the same 1 She hadnot the crura o to gaaatioa the yenng lawyer; she dreaded lob he *hoard destroy by A cantradiotory word this tract Jul image of himself which she had bnilb rap from memory in her own mind, She con- oeived that those annoy fields -more of s. dream than a reality -wore too far distaat from Took's Coutover to be reached again, excerpt in itneginatiou,would be deeply fnterestinp; for her Rate had never become reconciled to due cariosity bad bean roused by all that had humble life, to which she knew that she had , reached her ear awn the great Me, Pilk• nob beset bora, or bred. But her Affection logien and the weeithy clients who so often for tewe abel.� Was be nel North e always medltai g how d embed her impulse to gat enta,in the octagonal room on like 40 the stair• be could but plum her? She had the caao, It was to this vire room that Sidney warmest of hearts, and the old clerk never now lar the way. With a certain feeling of d nip ed to her better eater* in vain. We trepidation, for "fief she oanld not aacouni 1 lt constructed a window garden inu her B,oga followed. Her Sat ingpreeeien, as she garret; and when the needs which shehad •sated herself is the chair which Sidney pleated there began to show ague of buret.. laced for her. was that, etre had been there Ing foto leaf, ago maid not ropreea her *knee a before, but not in childhood r ab some remote of gratitude and dolighb. She would sit for I Period too shadowy to recall even as she had hours in this garrot"boadoir; and she would l recalled a half forgotten dream. It was wlmoib forget for the moment her oravioge for a more congenial home. A gleam of. aunahine would eaanetimcs linger for a brief half-hour in her "'garden;" though never a ray looked in ab the windows bedew ; the old clerk's inky parlour was always In shadow. Happening patiently to Iook up, the girl oaugh night of Sidney Trench. He was crowing New Square and coaling towarda her. Having met more than once since the evening upon whish ho bad fit% canal at tl'aok's Courb, Sidney had naturally been offs ''t her thoughts; nob only playing a part the dreamy recollootlon of her , ho regarded him theireir bane - ?eater. lied ho nobextended a helping hand a the moment wbcn they needed it snub ? Sne had frequently wlahed to esprees alt the gratitude with which her heart was overflowing; for she had medicated and composed many a pretty speech to whioh she believed that she would have the tremor. I to give utterance. Fatal deception Now thelohe wan standing before her with outsold hand, Ron had nob the cour- age to e. w leone word. He waked slowly beside her within these quiet precincts of New Square. The °look over the ancient Well had atruok nix, and the plate was omparatively deserted. And now the chirping of thesparrowe grew louder; end the retreat - lug rayl of the setting nun -that ascended oblquely the weather beaten atone walla - seemed bo inoreaae in brightress. "Woad it surprise you, Rosa," aaid Sid- ney, who felt impelled to address the girl as he had done his little playmate in early days "if I told you that I had been making all torts of schemes about you?' Rona lookedup laughingly, and maid : "Ie not tcheming part o: a lawyer's profeeaion?" Sidney smiled. "Ibis the way of bhe work But I wish, seriously. to oonsulb with you. with great earnestness', •"I spoke harshly to A lawyer seldom schemes withonb hie client a you the other evening in the library ; I permission." regret having done ao." Am I your client ?' " Why speak, sir, of that now ? I t./ok Thio quoation broughb au oda laugh from We as you lawn led I should, as the .deice yon believed I needed." somethingeo dim, >,o confusing, that 11 vxn- Ished from her memory when the young ler- ear epoko. He had stepped towards the door leading into Mr 1'ilkiootot,'a rooter ''I will telt Me Norris that you aro herr,' said be; and bo - fore Rain court answer he wee gone S'Ie now looked tabour net. win eager curl - Deity. Suddenly her ty, a felt upon the deed- b<x aeon which was wsitcn;"Roeamoud Gage. The girl epeeng teem her chair with a suppressed ory twin taw lips. She romem- bared all now. R teamond Gage was her own namec y 1 .lane french had nob spoken idly : she was Indeed his client. Bat why had he never told her of this? -why had he left her to abruptly without a word of ex planation ? Rosa placed her hand upon Mr Pilkingto&ie door, opened et, awl stepped forward, But there a gram be ze door beyond, firmly olorel, the sight of itouolt:dher Impotuoaity. She retreated Satellite' waiting.roone In alarm at her own ae'ion. lied she thculhb to discover the secret there? She sank bank in her seat, as m.uy a client had done beton her, with impatience expressed in her emote attitude. Tura was no remedy : she musb weirs. Sidney Tremolo who had a moment before passed lute Mr Pilkington's room, was evi dently expected there; for the old lawyer exploreed no angrier) at seeing him enter so abl aptly. Mr Pilkfngbon glanced toward the green door. "Is she there?" He was standing near his desk, leaning one hand upon Ib, and looking half over his shoulder towards Sid- ney. °Yes id•ne"Yes ;she is waiting, air, for Abel Norsk". Tne lawyer turned and came towards Sid- ney; he platted his hand kindly -upon the young man's shoulder. "Sidney,'' said ho Sidney. "I suppose sc, Shall we assume it, for argament'e sake?" " Yes 1 And then we musb suppose,'' said Rosa, with a brightening look in her eyes " that I've got a great black deed• box at your office, full of dooumenta, with my name '— She stopped, and the odour eproad over her cheeks. She had nob reflected when she spoke that "Rosa" was the only name she could recollect. "Ah 1 The deed -box and documents," said Sidney, as if to reassure her, "will come -all in good time. Meanwhile, your legal adviser has one or two questions to ask his client, Rosa curled herret lis half seriously and half in play. " Must I submit to oIoew-eXaminet;on?" Sidney again laughed. " I merely want to discover," said he, " whether my schemes meet with your approval -To be- gin, then 1 Is nob this life in Took's C Burt a little eary ?" mes. Yea, very dreary indeed." Then s dded : "I know how wrong ibis to be diesatiafied. Poor old dad is so good : I think lie loves me more than he ever did. He thinks that I am quite happyand con- tented mew. I love him too. And yet 1 sometimes think -bub that's only when I'm in a wicked mood -that I shall run away. c" Where would you run to, Roaa?" "How should T know ? I should atop as soon as I reached the country. Is : that fat?' "No. --Would a oounbry lire content you ?•' " If there were lots of wild•fiowers that is all I think about-" Bab," see added, " how could I leave poor dad ? That would be selfish t it would be ungrateful. The young lawyer looked grave. " My soheme, I'm afraid, would take you from Mr. Sorria. Bub you could come and see him whenever you liked." Could I said .Roes dreamily. "Yea. -My scheme is," said Sidney, "that you should become the companion to a rich lady who '— r " Dees ehe live in London?" " No ; in the country. Bab the house where she lives is little beyond the sub. urbe. There is a large warden, and shady walks, and wildflowers; and• on all aldee are open heath and wooded hills. chair, and looked abHal heaioatinglyat.era; lathe month of Way, 1807, I ran away but gradually a change carne over the old from a British aitip which entered the porb cleth'e expression ; he hall rose from hie of Madrae. I was a boy of 14, a runaway to seat, and bending eagerly forward exclaimed '' Good gracious, sit 1 Why, I thought of you es dead." Ala 1" .and the old lawyer fleshed a look sea, and captain and mates had duo their very best to take the romance out of me. They bad euoceeded so well that I slipped ashore, determined to die of starvation bettors ab Norris under his eyebrows,-" So, you t would return to life on floe deep. No effort do remember me ?•' was pub torth bo capture me, and, two weeks Norris still continued to examine Mr later, when I eat in the shade of a wall one Pilkington a features, "I cannot be mediate- day, hungry and penniless and ready be give en, Ic'e twelve years ago," said he. ""Bat UP, an English woman haloed before me and how could I forgeb you, art" How could I beoan to question me. She was a smell, slim woman, ablaut 41 pare of age, quick of speech and movement, and 1 got the idea ab onoe that she was a ase osptain'a wife, I was not far cub, as she proved to be a sea cap. twin's widow, and was in command of a brig trading with the eau ooasb et Ceylon. , She happened to be in want of another hand, and, Mr Pilkiagtaa loaned barn is his chair. after being told what 1 could do, she made a But he neither glanced up nor made any an proposition that t gladly accepted. forget your face --or' Ahab day ?" Mr Pineiagbon seemed from hie manner to be demanding "Whab day ?' Norris understood him. "Teat day," he hastened to explain, "on which Sou came to our outage near Se Athena and placed a lit- tle girl under my wtfe'acare."' ewer. "Why, sir- why did you never write to me. -Did you think, said the old clerk pathetically, wthat she war dead ?' Phis question trough a gaick and some. whabangry retort, "What doeaitnatter to you, 'said the lawyer, "whet I might think? Ie will not alter the eituetion. The girl is alive and well ; le else nob "Yoe; she h alive and well." The lawyer r: dieted a moment. "Ilex she any recollection of mo -any impression of her life previous to being planed with you '•' Norrie looked oarueatly at Mr. Pilkington, "Se strong a recolteation of you, sir,' said he, "that were elle to mob you now -though itis twelve years ago --I doubb not she would or ow you again, She baa A wonderinl mein. Mr P)1eiti torr grow atilt more thoughtful. ""We shall nee," he muttered -•-"we shall see." While apsaking, the lawyer slowly rose from his chair and walked towarde the ;leen baize door. Norris rose alto and stood watching his movements withonrioeity. Mr. Pflkiugron, witheab ,uvlbing the clerk to follow by sign or glace, ateppsd into the ootagonal room. Abel Norris was puzzled. What was Mr. P"lkiagtom's object] in quitting the rooeu ac auddenty ? He had left the door ajar ; end the old clerk could nob fail to hear the sound of vofoos. Was that Raaa's voles? North went towards the door with eager ont- atretched hand. Samothing impelled him; he gleed through, and Mood with the further door wide open before him. The dusky light was lcohiag in at the little bar- red window in the octagonal room : Abel Norris saw Baan half kneeling ab Mr Ptlk. iogtone r toot and eloping hie hand in both her own. " dear," the old lawyer wen aayiug in a firm though kindly voice. "we mint have no team, it you please." Mr. Pilkington ooked anxiously into the young man's face. " You do not doubt, Sidney, that I love you as ranee as if you were my son? I was vexed -deeply troubled, that evening. Tho thought had taken bold of me thew you, whose frankness no one could question, had become aecren like myeeif, I viewed the sitaa•ion with horror ; I could not look ab io calmly. And yet, no sooner had yt.0 left me than I saw plainly the cause : it was my own evil conscience at work. Yon were keeping no secret from me. It was I who feared being questioned -it was I who was hiding a secret from you 1- Bub we understand each obher now: do we non? It was I who needed the advice I gave so freely. I will prefix by ib, if nob yet too late. -Where is Norris ?" " In my room. -Will yor see him?' "Ab once, said the lawyer, seating himself at his desk. " Will you send him to me?" Sidney found Abel Norris in 1 -ie room down stairs waiting his return. "Will you step upstairs ?' said the young lawyer. "Mr. Pilkington wishes to see you." "Mr. Pilkington, sir ?•' "•Yes. His room is at bhe top of the stair- oaee: the door on the ltfb band aide. Mr Pilkington whales hie make your acgnaino- anoe.,, Norrie, who bad never seen the great Mr. Pilkington, though he had made 'several visits to Sidney Trench, felt •a certain awe of the senior planner. Nor was the old olerk alone in this respeot ; many a client had experienced the same disrelieh for a private interview. Norris 'stopped half. way on .the staircase and book a pinch of snuff to steady his nerves, and then hastened to knock at the senior partner's door. Norris found himself in the oblongroom, Still at his desk, with his whip] hed bent over some papers, sat Mr Pilkington. He did notraise his eyes ; bub a stern expres. , y pres. cion (tame over his: face, as- if to hide some potaible sign of emotion. "Your name is Able Nerris?" The old elerk bowed his head. ' "fit down, -No, no," raid the lawyer., as Norrie took a seat near the door. "'Bring lour chair close to my desk-oloaer still 1 Rea made no reply, If the young law . oannotnee you at that distance. -De you I found the brig to be called the Orient, She was .malt bub almost new, and a rapid sailor. The crew conaieted; of an English mate, two Norwegians, a Fault bay who had run from his ship and myself. airs. Swee',.the captain, stood her wstob, and this gave the mate bimself, a menand a boy en his watob, while she ilea a men and a boy only, though the cook bad to tura oat in her watch 1f required. The latter was a fell•blooded Negro, big and powerful, and wailer enough to steer or go aloft. air*. Sweet, se all agreed, was a thorough sailor and a perfeob lady, befog able to navigats the brig anywhere, and being thoroughly pasted in every detail of ship work. T saw on the brigs deck, almost as soon as I set fob abroad, a nine -pounder taunted on a carriage, and later on I asortained that ebe carried a supply of small arms ; bub 1 gave the matter little thought and asked no questions. We got away ntxl day after I joined, and we bad a fine run down the coast to Caps Ecnikel, from which point we laid our coarse to the sonthesab. We had orosaed the Gall of Mannar, which eoparatee the island of Ceylon fron* the eouthere end of Hindoos- tan, when the wind fell to a calmm one evening at 8'olook, and all night long we rafted about without making the least progress: Next morning there was a heavy mist on the water until alter sunrise, end ib gradually burned away withonb bringing the breeze we hoped for. When the bor'a,a was clear we asw a barque - rigged orafb of three times our aria lying aboub three miles to the north of us. She bad come down on the lamb of the wind, probably bound through the Straita, and the cannier had aob her to the eastward during the night. Those were eaapielous days, bub the bogus looked to be an boneat Englishman, and we gave her no attention until aboub mid -forenoon. Then the French boy, who was aloft, reported that she had lowered two boats. The glees was sant up (ro BE CQ vLlCtfl D.} to him, and ho soon made out that the boats were being manned by armed men, and dark skinned fellows at that. This looked as if the barque had fallen into piratical hands, as no honest trader could have any honeeb. purpose in arming his boats. They took their time aboub ib, and fleetly Tno moat pronounced effects of a solar headed in our direction. Had there disturbauae are felt as it appears by the boom any wind they would doubtless have sun's rotation on its axle and as the disturb. tried to lay rats aboard. As soon e s it was ante crosses the nun's meridian. The six soon that the boats were headed for s it . and a half days bebween appoaranae by ro- Sweet called us all aft a rd sed for ed that tattoo and meridian dian peerage re marked p k bywho meant our the stranger n a irate 8 was P e orma n t auroras, , ,heat, or earthquakes, capture and deetraotioa. She was a little After meridian peerage the storm iuflaence puler, than usual, bub spokes i was low and even voice, and did nob seem bo be a bib frightened. She Bald 11 was a naso where we must fight for our lives. They would out our throats if we surrendered, and oonlx do no more if wo foughb to the lash. She seemed to accept it as a matter of course that we should tight, and she wee the firab ono to lend a hand to clear away the gun. The two boys of ns brought up the muskets and loaded them, distributed the pikes along the rad, and then passed up .hot and shell and cartridges for the big gun. Everything bad been made ready for just such en emergency. There were thirty solid nine pound shot and twentybwo loaded shells in the magazine, as well as about thirty cartridges containing the proper quantity ofpowder. As I af ter wards learned, all had been purchased at the Government arsenal in Madras. We were as ready as we could be before the boats had pelted a mile from the bargee. The mate loaded the gun with a shell and placed two others and several stands of grape near at hand. Oar brig lay broadside to the north, headed to tho east. The brats must, therefore, pull bow on as until close at hand, even if the plan was to separate and board from different points. This gave us a big advantage, as we could all lay along the porb rail. The gun was wheeled over, the decks cleared of every obstruction and then we were ready. Mrs. Sweet had a bouble barrelled English fowling piece load- ed with buckshot. She was nearest the stern. The rest of ns had government mnakete. I was pretty nervous, knowing what was at stake, and she noticed this, and kindly ohided me, saying that. I must take good aim, keep cool, and that we would surely beat them off. She called the French boy over and told him the same, but there was no need of epaaking to the obhere. They were ae cool as if it was an everyday matter, and I heard the mate say to the 000k that he was afraid the fellows would back oub. The beats came on to within half a mile LOVE. of us, and then stopped. Some sort of dbeenrun n on the signal had pbarque- probably { a not taut ion than we were ready for a s:cub resistance. They could have seen us pteparing by aid of the glass. There was a consulbatiou of about five minutes, and then came a cheer as the boats moved forward. Mrs. Sweeb looked over ab the mete and he nodded his head, lighted hie gun, and after a. long moment applied the port fire. There might have been some luck aboub it, though he was= an But He Will be Confined. old gunner, bub bio shell struck the eastern- most boat plumb on the bows, exploded with a loud reporb, and she was wiped oub so completely that we could nob even nee tee fragments. I bel i ive that every man in that boat was killed. This ought to have ditoouraged the other,: but it did nob. She was pulled forus as fast as possi- ble, and the stand of grape fired at her went t ett high. After teat charge we began to bless away with the muskets, and I bib ehe of the rowers and almost stopped the boat for a moment. While the mate and Negro worked to load the big gun, the other five of us banged away, and we hit somebody almosb every shot. • The boat oame on, however, the wounded cursing and theun- harmed cheering, and she was within 150 feet of our eide when the nine -pounder ursde r roar- ed again. She had fired a shell plump into the boob. It had sated as a solid shot and A recent invention for ventilating gone right through her, killing and wound - sewers uses a ` circle of gas burners for ing and smashing, and when the smoke blew creating an up.onrrenu and Teasel] the away only three menwere swimming about extracted mfr through - the fi.men with on the enrfaoe. There were ordered aboard a view to. disinfect it, The, t ff naive and Made secure ab, once.. The bet gee and possibly' infected vapors from refuse dropped another best, butafter owniug half desiruotors and the oauldrona need in bone way it returnee, ..Abeub noon ehe got a boiling and similar trades are best destroy. riftla of wind which did not reach us, and ed by passing them through a furnace. made cff to the west fee the Straits. •.----•---•ss TOLD BY OIID SOUS FAOES. Waw the Sun Streets the Weather -tate:. cattng facts. of a solar disturbance appears bo Deese. In this use of the word storm all the other phenomena are fmoluded. All are kindred. When solar disturbances follow each other in rapid suooeselon the storm period is pro- longed. Tee effeobs of solar distuxbenoee which break onb on the sun's hemisphere turned toward ns prottnoe sudden and power- ful effeota in our atmosphere. Storms known as aloud burst haves been moat frequenbly noted in oonneotion with these sudden out. bursts on the sun's fade. As a rule the marks of solar disturbance cannot be seen until the storms on the earth cease. The apota form after the storm produoing amp. tions. Tornadoes are more numerous during pa - theta of violent solar agitation. The number and violence of tornadoes are directly propor- tioned to the number and violrnoe of solar dieturbenoes. Obaorvatione made during the past winter and spring show that solar dir- tnrbancait ate in soma oases not marked by spots until a men- h or two after the ern dons begin. Fifty-two days after the great storm of Jan. 9 and 10, 1839, spots appeared by the gun's rotation. Spots also appeared by Tetagonfifteetwo days after the great Sam- oan hurricane of March 15 and 16, 1888, which wrecked several men-af•war in the harbour of Apia. Thin disturbance on the ,nn was followed upon reappearance on May 20 and 30 by the floods which wrecked 4,hnstown, Pa., and drowned WPlllIamsporb, Pa. When solar disturbances legoome obscure, their storm aotion can be tradeB by counting the twenty s'x day period, Tho solar dia- turbences which caused severe and wide- epread storms during the first eight months of 1889 ere now obscure, spots being rarely exon. Bat there is evidence of some activity an the seat of the disturbances. Whenever vlel a nb action is resumed our atmosphere will be vexed 1.1 proportion to the violence on the ann. The nht has athousand eyes, And the day but one ; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart bat one ; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. When we came to question the prisogerr, wbo were lusty lookingcutthroate, we found that they belonged to the Walden) Islaude, aroun.r la the Indian Ocean. They made no bones aboub admitting that they meant to capture us,and were surly and defiant over their repulse. They would not give ns the name of the beequo, and even after elle was out of sight they boasted that she would soon raters; to release them. Absundown we got the breeze and stood away on our coarse. That night during .the maty* watch the pirates disappeared, All knew where they went, but no one asked any gsestions. The two boats contained fully two dozen of theta, and their loss meet nava sadly crippled the barque and completely changed her plane. About bhrco years later than the date given at the opening of thissbetoh, I shipped aboard of a Utah abip caged the Swallow bo make a voyage froze, 13,rnbxy up the Persian Gulf and back, S ie was au old craft and a poor eater, and her crew of twelve men were made up of four or five nationalities. I remember there were two. Kanakas or Sandwioh Islanders, one Lasoar, a Negro or two, end the other* were Amer. lean, Englitli, and Dutch. We bad namely lefb B.mbay when the captain was taken sick with fever. Rio name was Aldriob, and his wife, who wan a woman of 30, atwaya called with him. Site now took command is a generea way, and tbi* to the aatlafaction of the mates, though both wore thorough sailors, 1 hoard one of them lay that she could take an obaervatfon or work a dead. reckoning, and I eaw from the orders ate gave that she knew all aboub a abip, We bad good weather and made good progreea until after we wore above timer, in the Bay of Olmaa, Thoth one forenoon, we got a email, which, did mot last tea minutes, onb which brought down our fore and main to gallant meets and carried away a sail or two. There wan only a light breeze after the rquail had Passed, when. an Arabian dhow of about 250 tens harden came *tooling down, the eoaab, We were within four miles of the rooky and moan. taunt; *bore, but she was two utiles imide of us, She was no sooner made out than the Prat mate became very anxious, and Mte. Aldrich was sent for to come on deck. Sae took a good look at the stranger through the glass, And, turning away, she queried of the orate ;-••• Can we depend the pe o n orew to drift? "I hope se, ma'am," he replied. " Rate them tame aft." All moved aft, and I can .remember .thrangh all the long years just hew she looked and every word she *atd. She had a worried, anxious look, and no wonder, and there was a trembling in her voice, as she said :- ""ffen, you know that your captain is very sick. Yonder omen a pirate if there over was one. If he captures us tho*e who live through the fight will go into tho in- terior as slaves and worse, If we all atircod we can beat him off. What do you way 1' "We'll fight to the lash?" shouted ono, and the cry was taken up by all. "Thank Gott" she fervently exclaimed. "Give him a brave fight, and no one can be blamed if we aro defeated, Sooner than fall into his hands I will blew the old ship sky high and all of us with her." We had no cannon, bub we had fifteen mnekete, a lot of cavalry sabres, and the captain hal not dodged about these watora with bis eyes shat. He hed,•two or three years before, purchased a dczan of hand grenades or stinkpots, seen as aro used by tho Chfnoao. These were P n brought with 8 the rest and found to be fused and in good condition. They weighed about twopouads apiece, and each was enclosed in a net, so that it could be tossed quite a dletanoo. We loaded our muskets, took our station, and were as ready as we could ba. The cap- taiu'a wife alternated between the deck and the cabin. He was onb of his head, which was the. better for him, and the had his revolver for me, The dhow eneake3 a'ong until newly op. posite ns. All work had been suspended aloft, and she musb have known by this that we wore ready for her; but she came on jut the tame. And no wonder. One of the men went aloft with the glass, and he made oub two guns on her deck and a perfect swarm cf men. She was going bo do a bold thing -run ns aboard in broad daylight. She would not use her guns, fearing they would be heard and bring us assistance; but if ever that mob gained our decks we were gone. We lay with our head to the north weet,so she would pass our port quarter fi rut. Hare two of the strongest men were placed with the grenades, and two of us with mus- ketawere between them. The others were placed to fire ever the stern. Down came the dhow, foot by foot, with never a oheer from the crowd of cnt-tnroata on her decks. There was a mensca in their silence, but it had no effect upon us. We were determined to fight and to fight to the last, I got the first shoo and knocked over a ,man on her forecastle, and then all began to bleu away. She did not fire in return, but forged up on our quarter, and I could see fifty Arabs, each one armed with a crease, crowding ageinat bhe rail to ba ready to board. " Now, heave 1" yelled one of the sailors with the bombs, and both lighted the fuzes and heaved away. Before we could tell what damage bad been done the dhow was alongside. She threw her grapnels, bub they did not catch, and ahe rubbed our whole length and went ahead. As we saw her failure we blczid away again with the muskets, and every ball found a man. She sailed like a witeil, and before she could be checked was a cable's length ahead. She had just pub her helm -- - •..hes t.hnre teae an explosion, followed by a greab sheet of Rime, and we saw tl:-* she was hard hit. Confusion reigned from stem to stern in a moment, and we added to it by peppering away aS fair range. All ablers within five mtnuees, she fell off, headed for shore, and was run on a reef about a mile away. We saw acme save themselves by boats and rafts, being swept in to the shore by the tide, bub it was after- ward learned that upward of forty five men were killed or drowned, and that the loss of the dhow broke up a bad gang of pirates. Mrs. Aldrich was on deck through it all, emptylvg the revolver into the orowd se the dhow passed us, and when all was over she went down to her husband with face only a little whiter and mouth more firmly set. She did not betray her womanly weakness until ehe came to thank us. Then she broke down and cried like a -well, job like a woman. -Hartford Times. The Realm Minister of theinterior has formulated a plan for the taxabion of all foreign immigrants to wrath Rnsela. His. prime ;object is to keep oub the German peasants with their liberalizing Influences. A somewhat similar plan, wibh the same ulter- ior motive, was proposed in 1887. The Ren- ame Government was then on the point of taxing all Russian subjects wbo remained abroad more than oneear 61,000 a year. The execution of this plan would have epti. ed all the German and Swiss universities of all the poor Raasian students, who invari- ably imbibe radicalism with their foreign education. For some unexplained reason the plan of 1887 mlioarried. " Detroit Free Freer." A New Bruns- wick man has been found guilty of murder while Janne, but the Canadians won't turn him loose to kill somebody else. He will be shun up jnsb es tightly as if his head was level, and given the remainder of his life to " think it over' and get ready to die. Our climate indifferent, you know. "Know thyself" may .be all right in theory, but it would lead bo a great many suicides if fully followed, Invariably reasonable-Selb, mustard, pepper, vinegar. George-" How is your snit with Mies De Pink progressing ?" jack-" Finely. When I call now her dog wags its till. 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