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TIE BRUSSELS POST,
FEB, 7, 1890
BULLY HAYES
The Pirate of the ll'aelble,
THE THRiLLiNG STORY OF A DOUBLE LIFE.
CHAPTERIII,
T$E CAPTORS OF THE KARL.
Tor some yearn after the events just dem
oribed, the state of affairs in Polynesia woo
each a scandal to oivirz akin that the abteo•
Hon of bhe European powers was celled to it,
with very important results. The F,jt Io•
kande, one of the thumb groups in the Peoifio,
Lad become an Abatis for all the vagabonds
and desperados in what has been called the
filth quarber of the globe. Thither resorted
-every fugitive from joetice and every broken
adventurer from all the British colonies or
-deo French penal settlements, certain to
-find there plenty of kindred 'mirth among
the reckless choreotera who ab thee time
carried on the island trade. Under the pr
e•
tepee or establishing law and order, o nu",ber
of these worthies had banded themselves to-
gether under a native ohlef named Thakom•
ban, whom they had proclaimed King of
Fiji, and eetabllehed what they wore pleased
to calla Government. Tho only eff:ab of
fila was to alibi tot honenb traders to ester
Lion under the term of eines and toxls, while
enabling the lowest reit me afloat to evade
.ail neteenal responsibilities by flying the
Fijian flog.
sChii unique pies of hunting was designed
with grim irony by a man who, having been
dismissed from the royal navy for gross min
conduct, and led a disgraceful career, had
coolly appointed himself Minister of Marine
to the King of Fij 1 It consisted of a white
flag with a dove parrying a palm branch in
uta beak, surmounted by a crown in the
centre. Ib was supposed to represent the
Chriotien peace that prevailed under Thak-
ombates benign rubs, but in reality it wee
the symbol for rapacity, ferocity, and lic.tnie
which pub bhe worst vices of savages to
shame.
The greet development of the auger trade
in Qaeesland and of cotton, cake and cop.
re, industry in many of the ielande, neoeesit-
sting the employment of colored hands, had,
about the came time given a sudden impulse
io the labor traffic, more commonly known
as "black blyding" and in many instances
not distfagnlshable from slavery. The ordi-
nary proobice among the more regular trad-
ers was to make arrangements with the
tribal chiefs in the gronpo where the bast
laborore are found, to supply a certain num-
ber on a fixed scale of payment, with an
undertaking to return them by a certain
date when they had completed their engage.
anent. This was regarded as lege', if any-
thing could be legal where no defined
authority of any BOSS existed. But there
werennmbersof Madera, or so called traders,
who cut things short by landing an armed
party and caplaring all Oho poeple in a
vilige, or else enticing them on board their
vessel by -one devise or another, and, having
rot them down below, sailing away with
them. These raids were often accompanied
-by bloodcurdling cruelties, and the men who
were guilty of them were among the most
depraved and cellons wretches that ever
disgraced the human form divine.
Snoh was the position of affairs whet, bhe
tewe reached the hoose of Goddefrd, the
great German trading company at Apia, in
Samoa, that ono of their vessels, named the
Kari, a smart brigantine of 1d0 tone, had
committed a raid on one of the islands of
the New Hebrides and carried off a Iarge
number of men and women after a fierce
engagement and a sickening slaughter. It
was one of the boldest and most brutal
crime of the kind that had yet been
committed, and a loud complaint hay.
Mg been made by the miecionariee and
the reepeotabfe traders, the British
Commodore had sent a cruiser in searoh of
the Karl, and an indignant remonstrance to
her owners. The Goddo£rets were thnnder-
.etraek. They had been eatahlished at Samoa
for many years and had the highest standing
In the Pacific for fair dealing with both
whites and natives. Moreover, they were
inno way concerned in the labor Wafer),
and the masters of all their vesele had in-
etruotons not only to carry no labor on
account of the firm, but never to have any
dealing, however profitable, with that an -
savory trade. The captain of the Karl was
a trusted servant of the company, a man of
excellent judgment and of unswerving
honesty.
The Goddefrois could onlyreply to the Com-
raodore that they deeply regretted what ha l
occurred, and that they would gladly assist
in bringing the culprits to jasbioe, The only
explanation they could give of the affair was
that some labor trader anxious to get hands
at all coots and hoz tele, had made such
tempting offers to the Certain, or ,perhaps
to the crow of the Karl, as hadovercome all
eorapla and made them forgeb both the in
8truotiona of their employers and the dic-
tates of humanity.
With an their experience of the Island
trade, they little knew what dangers and sem
.yror€eee they had to contend with.
When the Karl left Apia with a cargo of
copra, that is to say, dried cocoanut, for
Sydney, her orew combated of twelve mon
of all nationalities, three or four Samoan
boys ae deck hands, the German Captain,
and two mates, All went well for some
weeks. The brigantine mailed from group
to group on the way to Sydney, picking up
ehipmente of copra at the variona trading
etatiene, and was already over nearly bolt
her voyage when she fell in with a email.
vsael flying the Fiji flag. Ste appeared to
have been in very bad weather, and as the
Karl approached her she hung out a signd
of dietrese. As the sea was not ab all rough
and the two vessels were dose together, the
Captain of the Karl sent a boat under the
charge of the mate to ask what wan the
matter. The mate reported that the little
vessel had been caught in a hurricane and
boat all of her crew except two men and a
colored boy, and was in much a bad condi-
tion that her Captain feared he malt abandon
her, makes the Karl would stand by him
until he oouid reach come place of eafeby,
There was an island at no great distance
which afforded exoellenb shelter for small
oraf6 in a nibble bay within a coral reef, and
the Captain of the Karl undertook to oon•
voy the obranger there, Thin offer was
thankfully aooepted, and six of the Karl',
men wore menu on board the Black Dlamond,
toe the Fijian was called, to relieve the ex -
handed remnant of her orew and help to
repair her s6
andiraB gear.
The two vesele then held on their way a
cable's length or so apart, bhe Karl going
under easy sail for the Bele of her crippled
oompanlon, and aboo on a000unb of her own
diminished orew, Tho bishb sob in dark
end gutty, and nothing could be non of bhe
black Dlamaad but the 000asional glimmer.
beg of a lantern hung in the fore rigging.
It war about 3 in the morning, the darkeob
of,6he twenty four, whoa the looked; man
ear the Karl sang out: "Ship on the weather
bow I" Tho mate, whose meth it wao, ran
forward and saw What he knave mud] be the
-nook Diamond apparently beating right/
down on the Karl, He shouted to the
eteersmau, "Helm sport 1" and battened
aft to take the wheel himself.
The nos) moment he was astonished to
hear the eound of oarei n the rowlocks, elute
alongalde bhe vessel, and before he could
recover himself or give the alarm below a
crowd of men had clambered over the aide
of the brigaebine, and he pend himself
overpowered ed Pune down :0 the deco.
The Ceetaln, hearing , he noise, rushed up
bhe companion ladder armed with a revolver,
end the seamed mate, followed by the whole
of the crew, onme running aft with boarding
pikes and handspikes.
In the melee that earned the second mate
and two of the Karya men were killed,
while the Captain suooeeded in dioposing of
Several of Sha aseaflanbs before the revolver
was hooked out of hie hands and he him•
Nell was made feat.
In a very few minutes bhe Bari was in
the hands of the enemy. When daylight
broke the Captain had the mortlfi,a„ en e;
seeing his ship tinder the command of a tell,
etont•man. with a mot amiable espies:Ion
of face, whom he reengnizad es having seen
through hie glaseee on board the Black
Diamond ; while acme twenty or thirty vile
lalnousfaflowe, armed to tho teeth, were
posted about the vessel.
The Black Diamond was lopping about,
apparently under no sort of ooutrol, at a
little distance on the starboard boar, and
bhe coral isltoad, where mho was to nave
shot a haven, was in full night a few miles
ahead.
The big man with the mild oanntononoe
Introduced himself with groat politeness:
" My name is Hayes," he said, " Bully
Hayes some people call me. I dare say you
have heard of me before.'
He was right. The name of Belly $ayes
was a sound of terror throughout the Pool
fio, and Capt. Menedoxff had heard of it
only too often.
"1 am sorry to pub you to any Ineouvent-
ence, Captain ; but the fact is I want this
omart liable ship of yours for very'mai-
cedar purpose. Still, l'll do the fair thing
by you, 00 you were ready to stand by me
in distress. Exsbange is no robbery, and
von shall have bhe Black Diamond. To tell
the truth, yon have as good a righb to her
as I have, for the only par° of her that's
mine is the name. I gave her that instead
of her own. But you may call her what
you please. You'll and your men all safe
down in the fore hold, and I dare say you'll
manage to matt somehow in this sunny little
place you've brought ns to."
Arrangements were at once made for
transferring all of Ka1'e people to the
schooner, Capt. Mandol fl being oombelled,
in fact, to comply with Hays's terms, Both
vessels entered the little harbor and the
Black Diamond was moored Meide the reef.
She proved to be quite unseaworthy, and
the condition of her hold and the ballet
marks en her bulkheads bore evidence of
some ghastly tragedy having been enacted
in her not long before.
Capt, blenedorff and bhe orew of the Karl
preferred to take their chances on shore,
where food and water were plentiful, and
the dead having been thrown to the sharks
and the decks wasted, Bully Hayes and hie
merry men sailed cff gaily with the Garman
brigantine.
Tee deeds that were done is the respec-
table name of the Goddetrois for some
months after that aroused a feeling of horror
throughout a pared the world where people
at that time were not easily shocked. The
vary fact of the firm'a high standing, and:
of the freedom of their people from the stain
of outrages made both white traders and
nativee an easy prey to the pirates, who, on
the other hand, were allowed to pees un-
questioned, with a courteous dip of the
ensign. when they met a British erufeer at
sea. On one occasion, immediately after
committing a shameless robbery on a trad-
log Mateo, and with all his plunder on
board, Capt. Hayes, who changed his name
and nationality with obliging ease, had the
pleasure of entertaining the Lieutenant -
Commander of H. M. S. Saodffy at dinner
on the Karl, and of concerting measures
with him for the detection of the eooundrels
who were destroying the island trade I
His next meeting with a naval cilioer was
rather more exciting, but not les trinmphaut
for Bally Hayes. 11 arose out of this same
affair ab the New Hebrides, for which the
Goddefrois got the blame.
The Karl, with her well-known white hull
and trim rigging, came to an anchor ono day
uff one of the moat populous villages in the
island of Melllcollo. The natives who hod
eon her before and had no occasion 6o regret
her vlsits, soon swarmed around her in their
canoe. They were rendered all the more
confident by seeing on her deck Devoe' man
in the blank silk watt and soft black felt hat
which are commonly worn by the miseier-
ariee in those seas. Hayes was always well
provided with these dieguiees, and on this
ocoaeion he chose to wear one himoolf sod
to play the role of a new Bishop doming to
establish a mission station on the (stood.
Meanwhile his mate, who was tooting au
1 aptain, appealed to the cupidity of the
natives by offering to buy all the produce
and ouristttee they oould get together at a
price which teamed fabel:ue to them,
He had no inducement to be economical,
as he was never going to pay, Tho next/
day but one was fixed for a great gathering
in tbo village, both to meet the missionaries
and for purposes of trade, the "bishop" er-
pecially regvosting that all the young mon
and women might bo present to hear him
preach to them in their own language.
At the appointed hour the largest build.
Ing In the village, an immense abed beil6 of
light bimbero and the leaves of the cocoanut,
was crowded with the very flower of the
population, only bhe old people and the
children being left in the neighboring
eetblomonto, or the other houses of the
village. The produce which had been
breughbfor sale had already been taken on
board the brigantine, and payment for it
was to have been made tot the meeting.
Bally Rays:'c money, however, was on a
par with his religion. Tho fleet thing the
nnhappy native knew, a volley of buliebs
and slugs was fired through the fragile walla
of the building, killing and wounding a
great many, end striking terror into the
test. Taken entirely by surprise, and
being quite unarmed, they wore unable to
offer any effective eminence, and though
the people in the village made a gallant
struggle, wounding several of Rayetes men
and trifling more than one of them, fully a
hundred of the finestyoung men acid women
worn dr,van or dragged dawn to the boats,
and oarricd off to the Karl, while probably d
double thab number wore loft dead or
mangled by the mnrdetouo fire and oruol B
blows of their aslalleilts. Tho prisoners o
were immediately plated under hatobeo, 0
and the Karl weir away before the terrifFied
natives could gather in aufSolent eiumbero
to surround her in their ammo with bows
and arrowe-
When bhe newts of bbla atrocious deed
reached the Commo/lore, he commissioned a
young officer named Froomantlo, who had
already dlstiagoishsd himself by hieootiviby
against the elevate!, to take the ewifteat
oowabto on the station and go in pandit of
the Karl, which, ib was surmised, would
make for eomo porton the one of Queens-
land, where alone 50 largo a number of
1laborers could tinkly be disposed of. Oa
Fremantle a000rdingly kopb a oouree wh
hs calculated would bring him on the b
tontine aotnewhere among the Wanda of
Arafura Sea, feeling easy about ovortak
her by hie 0leam power, if onto he oo
ascertain which way she had gone.
Sure enough, before he had been out
days he got news of jest such a voeselhav
toaobed ab one of the islands and taken
provisions mad water for a large number
people ; and from what he oould learn a
was as full an oho could hold of labor, hay
probably made other raids since leaving t
Nov Rebrids. Highly elated at the pro
peat of making each a prizs, the galla
ffioar put on every pound of steam a
every stitch of natives and drove the Rosa
as oho had never been driven before, talo
a oouree among those ohannelo which
knew was the only one a vowel of the Kar
tonnage ooeld tako.
On the ovenidg of the third day of
chase, wbeu among the Islands off t
coact of New .Canine approaching Tor
S raite, he came in sight of to craft saili
to the northwest with everything e
could carry. As he overhauled her he e
the was a brigantine with a white hu
flying the German flog, and sunk ye
deep in the water. She could be no oth
than the Kiri, and the commander of the
Reserlo felt his Captain's oommisaiou in his
pocket,
At sundown the brlganbiue Was not two
milee distant, but elle was cracking on every
inch of sail before half a gale of wind, and
was boldly steering close. to the edge of the
reef, where the Rosario, with her iron plates
and her heavy draught, did not dare to go.
Copt. Freemantle tried the effect of a shot
from the Armstrong pivot gun which served
for a bow door ; but the only response the
Karl made to that was to dip her German
ensign three times in derision. When night
came on the briganbine vanished among
the islarnds, where the covorette could not
follow her in the dark. Capt. Freemantle,
however, thought nothing of that, being cer-
tain of picking her np a few hours after day-
light
ay
light next moraine,
When Sawn can a the Rosario was still in
the channel between the blends, and it was
Impossible for any vessel to pose her without
being seen, or to escape her an she steamed
ahead. She no sooner cleared the group of
islands among which Sha Karl had been lost
eight of the night before than she detorted a
vessel standing to the eastward, creasing the
coarse prev€only taken by the Karl.
Capt. Freemantle, thinking bile enemy
had doubled on him, in the hope of leading
him astray among the perilous reefs which
abound in those waters, cautiously changed
kis coarse to cat him off, studying the ohart
closely and keeping the lead lino constantly
going. The way seemed clear enough, and
the Rosario woe soon ander a full head of
steam once more, By ten o'clock• she was
near enough to the exiling vessel to see that
ab° was a brigantine of much the same ole
and bund as the Karl, bub painted black
and flying the deteetod blank and white rag
of the kingdom of Fiji.
These were Woke which Ivory naval
ofisor was quite prepared for, and Capt.
Freemantle bore down on the brigantine as
hard as he could go, convinced that her
living freight would prove her to be the
Karl. He was rather enrorieed, however,
to see that ehe made no effort to get away,
lent kept on an easterly coarse, as if she
were sailing from some North Queensland
port to the islands of the Paoifio.
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aid the word in its broadest aeeso, as includf
ten not only poets and novelists, painter
105 sculptors and composers, but also acto
in and actresses, cantatrices and singers, i
of foot all those who are drilled in any profs
he thou connected with the fine arta or th
bhe stage.
s Dangers surround the painter end th
sculptor on every .tido. Andrea dol Sart
'lb knew this well, if we may credit Alfred d
nd Muesot'e story of him in Loreuzaccio. Th
ri° first and greatest peril of all is the loss o
°5, de radation of one's talent. Poor Andre
dolefully remarks that Raphael and Michas
Angelo wore not married man. His madon
be
neo wore his wife ; but the others pointe
I. better,
he All those who minister to the artist
:00 tastes of the world should live a little apart
05 from the world, observing, recording, at
11° tempting new things ; they oho 1c1 be din
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SHOULD ARTISTS MARRY
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The French Actress Dues Not mink Ilia
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the Matrimonial Failures of
Sand, Patti, Nilsson and ,Bitters
]nattier Pessimistic View.
Should nrtiata marry? By artiste I nice
those who aro particularly noted en the a
which a than or a woman practices. I u
interested. But who can be detached fro:
ll, the ways of the world that has a family t
rY provide for? Rent, household bills, shoos
00 bonnets, the measles, society and a thousan
more itevie Ell have claims on the married
artist, whether man or woman.
How, then, pursue the Qin ideal? In
France, in order to make both ends meet
the sculptor must restore old churches, neve
build therm ; the painter must turn out pot
boilers by the dozen, and rarely gets a
order to ornament the wells of a church ora
Paris mairie. Then, again, the painter and
sculptor need models, and this has too often
proved a strain on the demote happiness.
CASES IN POINT.
Among writers Victor Hugo and Thcophile
Gautier, Gerard do Nervel, Sainte•Beuve
and Beaudolaire may be cited 00 mem o1
artistic temperament little hampered by
matrimony in their work. On the other
hand, Milton began writing his famous
treatise "On the Doctrine and Discipline of
Divorce" before his honeymoon lead ex-
pired. Poets, you see, live faster than or-
dinary mortals and do not require so much
time to roach a conclusion.
In the case of clever women being mar-
ried to a dull, heartless class of men, what
can be expected but misery on both sides?
Such, from the method of arranging mar.
riages, frequently occurs in France.
George Sand, the well-known novelist,
was married when a young, lively and
pretty girl of 17, to a man old enough to be
her father—I had almost said :grandfather
—a retired military officer, entirely devoted
to amateur farming. He spent the large
fortune he had received with his wife in im-
porting breeds of sheep and magnificent
bulls. In George Sand's novel of " In-
diana," one of the characters who closely
resembled him is thus described: "He
was a man with a gray moustache and a
terrible eye; an austore master, before
whom all trembled—wife, servants, horses
and dogs." The Baroness Dedevant, for
that was then her name, endured her ancon•
genial existence with this man for BOMB
years. Two children were born to her, and
they for a time reconciled her a little to her
fate ; but only for a time.
M.U100 AGE A FASLIIRE WITR GEORGE sANn.
One day early in the year 1828 she was
missing, She had left her home determined
to seek a happier life elsewhere. Sho first
took refuge in the convent where she lead
boon educated, but soon found that she had
only exchanged one kind of captivity for
another. Again she took flight, and we
next Bear of her as inhabiting a garret in
one of the streets of Paris and supporting
herself by flower -painting and by writing
those novels which have made her name im-
mortal, Some years afterwards George Sand
entered into a lawsuit with her husband and
obtained a separation from him and a resti-
tution of all her property. She even had to
buy back her two children from the grip of
their mercenary father.
Thesameholds good of persons connected!
with the theatrical profession. How can '
wtiiut.d, of wbfoh 740 were either with
Ytlta Luck or Three New Orleans fbaber.
Wren Near Ship Island,
Probably it fa not gonortilly known that
the octopus, or devil list, frequently of 8
large size, is found on the coasts of blis-
alssippi and Louisiana. Possibly the arab
Instance on record of ono of these fish, and
' ono of largo eine at that, having taken a
hook, mole within the experience of three
residents of Now Orleans a couple of years
'Junta.
Gon. Philip Buchanan, Lieut. -Col• E. C.
Fenner, and Major Barry Howard, now
mayor of Beloxi, Mies„ started from that
plaeo in the yacht of Major Howard for
Ship Island on a fishing expedition. East-
northeast of that island, in about eight
fathoms of water, lies the wrack of the
oteunship Josephine, marked 0018 by a buoy.
1 Although the vessel proper lute been almost
entirely covered with sand, by careful
sounding the location of the walking beam
may bo found. On anchoring near that
spot to day of good fishing is assured the
I angler. The wroekod eteamor hoe formed a
barrier or shelter, about which the fish
appear to gather, and at certain tids, no
matter what other conditions may prevail,
' the abundance of fish makes it almost drud-
gery to attend the linos. No sooner has the
hook reached the required depth than it in
seized by some largo end voracious fish,
generally a red snapper, which is a gallant
ligh ter.
It was in Angst that the fishermen above
mentioned, accompanied by two anilcts, in
a yawl, anchored over the wreck of the
Josephine. Colonel Fenner, who has
a predilection for taking sharks of a
largo size; had with him, as usual, an inch
line, ten or fifteen fathoms in length,
equipped with a hook of suitable size for
sharks. This was baited with a piece of
salt pork and thrown overboard, where it
remained undisturbed for a long time. The
lino was secured to one of rho thwarts of the
boat. The fishing was as good as °seal and
all wero having good luck, when attention
was called to the °hark line, which was
running out with groat speed. The rapidity
of'its.movement indicated some fish of ex.
ceptional size.
The flue men had hardly time to throw
themselves to the side of rho craft opposite
the line when the fish, which woe firmly
Booked, born the boat down so that the
gunwale was partly submerged. For sev-
eral momor is iter occupants expected that it
would bo dragged broadside under by the
strain. Their fust impulse was to ant the
line ; but this was opposed by ono or two
of the party, who wished to see the end of
the adventure.
At this junetnre the boat suddenly righted
to an even Iced ; the lino slackened, and 11
was evident that the fish was moving to-
ward them. The slack of the lino wan
rapidly taken in, which was barely accom-
plished when the water became violently
agitated, and there leaped from the surface
a great octopus, in whose mouth the hook
was firmly fixed. As he threw himself
above the water, ho darted his tentacles,
which were not less than ten or fifteen. feet
long, toward the boat ; then he slowly sank
and remained for a few momonte,appore°tly
motionless, as if meditating an a mode of
attack.
The condition of the fieherrtu'n was now
somewhat critical, for they were entirely
unprovided with any weapons except a
couple of oars with which to repel the
attack of the monster, and yet they were
unwilling to detach the lino from the
thwart. There was nothing to do but to
await developments. Indeed, there was
but little time for consultation or,action,for,
after a brief delay, the octopus again
slowly rose to the surface where, with hie
head slightly elevated, ho began beating the
water with his tentacles. Ho was ap-
parently atudying the extraordinary adver-
sary which he had encountered. A third
time he disappeared, and this time with a
fierce rush. The line fled over the aide of
the boat with great velocity. The fisher-
men again throw themselves to the opposite
ids and awaited the shock. When 1t came
the line, unable to bear the strain, parted
t the thwarts and disappeared.—N.Y. Sun.
drawn or deckled against tis applicants.
In tho succeeding years the number steadily
increased, and at the and oflthe third year
15,582 divorces had been pronounced, being
at tloo rate of 16.5 for every 1,000 mate
riagos. It appears that 40 per cent. of the
divorce eaeos aro those of married copies
w(thont chit iron.
The deportment of the Seine, width in-
cludes Paris, has furnished one-third of ell
the divorce canoe in France during the past
three years. The departments of the centre
and west of France are those in which there
las boon the fewest suits ; but for judicial
separations, on the other hand, there have
been more applications than from other
parts of Franco. This large number may
perhaps be partly accounted for by the re•
traspoutivo character of the law, but it also
shows how a great need for reform was
necessary in that direction.
i Unless she is a star of the theatre or the
opera house, the social position of n woman
in France who has been divorced by a de.
tree 000amect at her husband's nistanee 1s
little better than that of a demi-mondaine:
To avoid this she must either lead the life
of a recluse, or get into quite a new set of
Mende and acquaintances. If judgment is
given in her favor she ie still very miserably
situated, and obliged to bo extremely el- i
onmspect and austere in her manner of life'
Mundane gayety is forbidden her by social '
usages. If she gives a soiree she does nol'
invite young girls lest their mother's should
decline to bring them. A soiree dansaute
would be thought too fast for a lady in her
husbandless situation. The result is, that !
most ladies, as a class, marry to divorce and
divorce to marry in order to recover their'
status in society.
ART1srs HAND TO SOIT•
No ; as I say, bettor remelt single than!
marry badly; and all artists, especially
those who appear nightly before the foot' i
lights, had better not marry at all. If e
man and a fashionable painter, for instance,'
lie mast, after a ]lana day's work at his
studio, put on his dress coat and sally out ,
to dinner and make himself anreeable te;
prinecases and GU°I100005, 01 a Woman ata.
an actress, after six hours of rehearsal in'
the daytime and as many hours of hard
acting on the boards in the evening, she.
comes home utterly jaded in body and
mind.
Artists, as a rule, arc a nervous, exactingg
impressionable set, and it is very difficult
to find the right sort of wife or husband fou
any of them. They must be left free to
fight their own battle through life. The
artist puts what force end energy h° bas
into his work and ufter his labor is over
finds himself left with no will to oppose
the petty importunities of every -day exist
ence. The married lives of the greatest
men and women of genius have usually been
blunders.
As regards the small fry of literature, art
and the stage, they, of course, having ns'
great genius to spoil, may well merry like
their neighbors. In fact, I think if person,
are careful to marry only their social equals,
matrimony is very respectable and even an
advisable affair. JANE HADING.
He signalled to her to heave to, and she
hove to immediately, at the same time
saluting the British flag. Capt. Freemantle
lowered bis laoneh, end, taking a Lleuten•.
ant and twenty-four men, he went off him
self to the brigantine, which now lay right
under the gena of the Rosario. Tbo com-
mander was received in the gangway by a
fiat) looking gray-haired man, who saluted
him respectfully and welcomed him on
board. He placed his men in charge of
the deck, and ordered the other to produce
his papers, These showed that tho vessel
was the Annie Woods of Levuke,bound from
Townsville to Tonga. Everything seemed
quite in order, but that proved nothing, for
forged shape' papers were a very common
device. Capt. Freemantle asked how many
men were on board, and woe told that there
were thirty,inoluding fourteen men who had
been taken at their own wish from Thursday
Island, where their ship had been lefb die-
abled. The orow were mustered on deck
and answered all questioner eatisfaetorily.
Capt. Freemantle was nob ab all deceived.
He merely admired the way. In which the
thing was done. He now sent the orew of.
the brigantine to the forecastle and ordered
bio own men to open bhe batches of the
main hold, The Captain of the Annie
Woods made not the least objection, and
for a very good reason. The hold contained
nothing but barrels of water and a quantity
of bananas end pinoappls. The bulkheads
were newly whitewashed and, the deck
aorubbed down, and there was nob. a sign
throughout the ship of her having tarried
labor for months,
What wait a naval officer, bound by rules
mud regulations and the decisions of vlce-
admirafby oourte, to do? The law said that
elaver0 wore only liable to be eeized on tho
high seas when actually with dnlicene-
ed labor on board. Res there wee not a
traoe of a laborer, licensed or unlicensed. If
Clint Fremantle aefzed the brigantine and
was unable t0 prove anything against her,
he would be liable to heavy damages and
would certainly bo reprlmanded by the
Commodore for excess of zeal.
Most reluctantly, bub moot politely, he
handed the ship', papers bank to the Captain
of the Annie Woods, together with a oerdi.
fixate from himself of having boarded her
and found her all in order, The Rosario
stemmed her way, and the Annie Woods
,ailed here,
When the Commodore received Capb.
Freemantle d roporb In hie own stateroom on
Board the Challenger, ab Sydney, he asked
him what ho thought of the affair.
'lamas pertain as that I'm sitting hero,
sir, replied Freemantle, "that the Annie
Woode was the Karl, painted black in the
night, '
"How about the
hundred a and
laborers I"
fifty
"That sanguinary scoundrel consigned
every ono of them to the oharks between the
time whoa I lost him in the evening and the
time when I lotted him again next morn-
ing,"
'I've no doubt you're right," maid the
Commodoro kindly, but yon only did your
uty in lotting him go."
Ile wee right; and many a time Afterward
ally Hayes boasted of how he had been
0e boo many for the etharteab naval eliioer
n the Absbralfan Mahlon,
(20 B% teenTiIitlen,)
you expect a pretty woman to devote eve
night of her life to pleasing the public o
the stage and then have any nerve left for
pleasing her husband?
In my opinion marriage and art do no
mate well together. I counsel great artist
not to marry. To be united with one's ar
ought to satisfy any man or any woman
The theatre, above all, should take th
place of wife or heeband.
It is even curious to see how wretchedly,
how tragically, sometimes many of trio mar.
ria es of celebrated artists have turned cull.
Take, for instance, some of our best MON
trices as witnesses to the argument. Pailif
and the Marquis do Caux ended in a semi,
a separation and a divorce. Nilsson's first
husband, M. de Rouzaud, died in a lunette
asylum. Marietta Albonf's first husband,
Achille Popoli, likewise died mad, so did
Engalli's husband, M. Alexieff. Giulia
Geese a marriage with Gerard do Melcy
ended in a separation, after a duel between
Meloy and the nephew of Lord Castlereagh,
BARRIERS TO OIARITAL n0IS0.
The o chance of happiness for artists fs
for them to marry among themselves. I
think, in order to be entirely a otar, the
would-be star should not marry. A star blas
her visits to pay ; her guests to receive.
She no longer belongs to her bilsband and to
her home. Of course, marriage is compat-
iblo with art in a certain degree, and the
healthy joys ,of family life can only add to
it. Bub under these cnreumstancos one can
bo an artist of worth, of talent, but not a
star.
There are some happy couples among
theatrical people, but they are very fete in-
deed. There is Mine. Segond-Weber, wife
of 0I. Sogond, who not long ago left the
Theatre Francais(); ehe 10 a marvel, so far
as stage life is concerned.
Then there is M. Lafontaine, who gave to
the world a rare spectacle lust year—the ails
ver wedding of an actot• and hie wife. She
was a foundling. Her husband married her
when both were at the Gymnyso Theatre,
The acrannony took place at Vertaillos, whore
they reside. Faure again sang for his coo.
rades,as lie
their original wedding,
'
g
v dtv
g,
and the tenor Claudio
"Ave� o gave the original
' Maria,' composed for the occasion by
the widow of Prince Leopold of Saxe -Co.
burg, All Paris eves present, mulesumptu•
ons ontertahnnenb was given afterwards in
the villa of the bride and gtoom of twenty
five years, 7.'liey are both wealthy and
highly esteemed,
STARTLING OTATi5TIOS
But these aro strange exceptions, and only
go to prove tho rule I have laid down,
Since the passing of M. Naquet's bill in
18$0, the work of putting bsunclorwhat the
church or the secular authorities have
kinds hap been-ggheg,•Qit.morrily In al)
,011 toy
ever
Grunt's Beginning.
In connection with the reminiscences of
General Chetlain of the difficulties overcome
by General Grant in his entrance upon hit
military career, the fact is recalled by
Illinois parties familiar with the circnm-
!dances at the time that confidence in his
ability has developed so slowly that even
prejudice might be inferred. His early nuc•
tenses were quite generally attributed to
Luck rather than generalship; and,
even after Shiloh, he was put on
" the ragged edge," as it wore.
Ho came to the command of the
Twenty-first Illinois Regiment when it woe
greatly donoraliz°d by the utter failure el
its commander, Col. Goode, es a military
man. The latter is remembered as a lawyer,
rather older than Grant, of more impres.
sive presence, good address and seemingly
one far more likely to achieve renown
in military or an other department of a
effort than the unattractive and rather
seedy -looking man from Galena. If air- a
oumstancos alone aro the factors in ami.
nonce, Goode should have passed into tis
hands of the historians as one of the world's
greatest captains, rather than Grant.
While the latter went steadily forward up
the ladder, the man whose retirement gay,
him first place drifted to a quiet Illinois
town and opened up a small bub tonoy
saloon. As he stood behind the bar dispea•
sing the drink it was often remora•
! customers that bot for " fool luck" he might
n ; have been the men winning victories and
moving up to the highest Oaten. But they
were mistaken. Water seeks its level.
01 Circumstances are but the channels. Grant
a 1 might not have achieved oven the small sue.
t ' 0000 of Col. Goode,, as amixer of drinks, but
• he had the qualities that made a great gaor
e oral•—St. Paul Globe.
Making it Right with the Court.
An amusing inoldenb interred in Judge
Fisher's court the other day which has job
been made public. Judge Fisher is a very
dignified mac while on the bench, and if
ever before a smile wan known to sweep
across his solemn countenance during °ourb
hours the Mob is not of record.
A juror failed bo antiwar to hie name when
tilled, and en ettaohmonb wail lotted for
him. Ho was brought in two hours later by
a deputy sheriff, and standing bolero the
judge received a severe reprimand,
"Your Honour," odd the juror, in self•
j satifioation, " I have been very ebok and the
doctor forbid me to come."
! The man evidently spoke the truth, and
Judge Fisher replied t—" Well, that being
i the case, you will not bo fined, but mast
pay the oeobe of this attachment, Yon may
go then, and report here again promptly next
Mondoy morning,"
! 'Bab, your Honour, my doctor oaye I will
not be abLo to sit on a jury for two years."
("All right'," good naturodly replied the
Judge, "make thooe statements Monday,
and if you aro not able to servo 1 will ex.
once you."
This Beamed to satisfy rho gentleman, and
yet he did nob go ae permitted to do, but
I began fumbling in hie vote poakote, as if
looking for something,
"You may go," repeated the Judge.
"Yee, your honour, thank you ; you will
excuse me ; I haven't got a cigar with me,
your Honour, or I'd be glad to give f6 to you.
I thought I had, bub I haven't, If I aver
meet yon—"
"Mr. Sheriff," thundered the Judge, but
before ho Bald more the juror realized he
had made a ha break, oak and n retreated
,ing o
0
d
!order.- [Sb. Louie Republic.
A Mathematioal Prodigy.
Louisville Commsrolsl: Som Summons,
the negro prodigy, was in town yesterday
and, as usual, entertained a largo crowd
who were testivghim with all kinds of mabh-
ematioal probieme. Slimmers is a negro, 34
years old, without the slightest education.
Ho oannot read or write, and dose nob know
one figure from another. He is a common
every -Ray farm hand, and to look at him
and watch hie actions he eeemn to he about
half•wibtod, but hie quick and invariably
correct aoewer to any example in arithmetic,
ao Wimttatrheor hnonwdrdeffidouf teietaeimbpat hwe ohnaderful,
sab-
mitted to, nor a single time has he failed to
give the correct answer in every instance:
Some examples given him yesterday were
How much gold on be bonghb for 3792 in
greenbaeke if gold ie worth $1 65? Mnlbiply
597;312 by 13e If agrain of wheat produce
7 grains, and these be sown the se000d year,
each yielding the same moratoria, how many
bushels will bo produced ab this rate in
twelve years if 1,000 gratne trade n pint ?
If the velocity of sound Is 1,142 feet per
second, the pulsation of the heart seventy
per minute, alterseeing a flash of lighbning
there are twenty pulsations counted before
you hear 11 thunder, whab diotance Ia bhe
aloud from the earth, and what is the time
after Booing the flash of lightning until you.
hear the thunder ? A commission merchant
resolved sevebly bags of wheat, each oon-
tafning three buohols, three peeks and three
grouts, how many bushels did he reoelvo?
And soon.
With Robineon'e, Ray's 'and other higher
aribhmetics before them, those who have
tested him ae yet have been unable to find
any example that with a few moments'
thought on hie part, ho is nob able to or -
Wetly avower,
Fish and Piehermen,
A teakettle paper 10 dimming the quem
Won, "Rave Fmh Sense ?'' There is no
doubt but they have as much sense ae 0eme
folks who sit on the bank all day and angle
for them,
In the Barber Shop.
Boamtful Barber—In all my carper as a
barber I have never out myself.
Customer— h
Tab ie be
bandied edge Mole.cause you never
The San Francfeoo man who claims to
have reoefved hundreds of :mowers from
'perms of rank and station in Europe
In reoponte to advertiser to supply woeltlly
wives to menboro of the European nobility
n need of helpmoote with fat hank aocouats,
robably in no snno exggoratee hie °aero•
ondooce, Plenty of merrigos Whioll have
dually taken plead have been jest ea mor-
onery end unblushing ou the part of Karo•
oan arletoorate ae any proposed by the
reedy in tea who anoworod the invitation to
este nogotatione for a dalllotnia helmet,
While the Malted Slates Is proposing to
spend large sumo of money for the ptlrpolo i i
of encouraging thip.building that imdustry p
le or jeyivg the greatest properfty is Groat p
Britain, Loot year the new tonnage launche, is
ed in the lmbtee country amended to 1,270,. o
000 tons, ogainer 904.000 tone in 1888, and p
it le oetitmtod that 1,000,000 tons will bo p
nllt bile year, n