Bloomington Progress, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 March 1900 — Page 3

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ROMANCE OF THE WAR OF I812.-x

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CHAPTER XIX. (Continued.) The Sea Kings wished to know, in the second place, whether Captain Manly had come to resume Ms command of the Sea King in bar novel career; and whether he would govern them as of old, receiving one-fourth of their gross gains for Ms -hare. In that case, they would at once swear obedience to Ms command's. These queries were propounded to Ath--erfey, Morton and the other subaltern -officers, by the crew with ail due gravity .and respect, and with such received by the same. A brief consultation was then held on the quarter deck, in which it was agreed among the officers that the advantages to be gained by Manly's resuming the command would be so great as to justify their losing rank to attain that end, and they all agreed each to decline -one grade, Frederick Atherley to be first luff in Keu of captain, and all the others -00 in rotation. This being duly settled, Atherley descended to the cabin, where he propounded to Hamilton the questions of the crew; Montgomery, who had been as silent as Ms friend since the arrival of the Spaniards, and as thoughtful, raised Ms 'bead quickly and looked fa Ms face inquiringly. "I will speak with you hereafter, Mr. Montgomery," said Hamilton, bowing low; "first, I must answer these good fellows. Yon will allow me to do so myself, and in my own words, Captain Atiettey? If so, please lead the way." "I follow you," replied the other, bowing in Ms turn, and 'in another moment -they stood together on the quarter deck, whereon Manly had so long ruled supremely. "And so, my lads' he said, in Ms own clear, heart-filling tones, "and so you think so ill of me, your old captain, as to fancy that under any circumstances I could prove such a land lubber as to unsay my say; or like an Indian giver, regret my own gift, and come back to look after it! I am sorry, I say, my ladsv that you hold this opinion, of me, for I must have done something mean or niggardly while I commanded you that you should now believe me niggardly or mean!" "No, no," from all hands, gradually waxing into a shout "No, no! Manly ever, never!" "Be it so! I am glad to hear it. But now to set your hearts at rest forever, the Sea King is none of mine. To you I gave her when I Left you, and yours she is, for me; and shall be forever. Are you satisfied now?" "Ay, ay! three cheers " "No, no!" interposed fifty other voices. 'We want you to come back p us. We want that you should never leave us more. We want you to be once more our captain."

CHAPTER XX. As Manly descended the gun-room companion, followed by Atherley and the other officers, the former said to Mm somewhat abruptly: "You will wish, I am early sure, Captain Mainly, to have some private conversation with, your friend, Mr. Montgomery, before you decide on tMs very important question, for very important it indeed is; and after that I m very sure you will do us the honor of communicating with us before you divulge your intentions to the crew. There are some of us," he added in a very low tone, "who are not easy at the position we now hold and who voted against the course we are pursuing. We all marked what yon sa&di about being captain in earnest and were glad to hear you say so; for we see In it a chance of getting dear of this accursed traffic we are in. They will swear to do anything if you will be their captain; and as for that cruiser in the offing, I don't care a farthing for her. We can tow off here to the westward in the night and get a better offing than she has against the sea breeze rising, and we can go five mites to her four any day." "How know you that, Atherley?" asked Manly, quickly; "some of these new United States twenties are very fast

"This one is fast," replied Atherley, quietly; "but. we can beat her on a wind and off a wind. She carries eighteen twenty-four pound oarronades to our sixteen eighteen; but, what is worse, she has two long eighteens on her forecastle." "You seem to know all about her; bow?" "She has chased me. twice; and I have fouglirt her once, and had the best of it in both. Her commander, too, has been aboard of us."

"On board of you? How?"

-der the guns of the Mojo." "What shipis she, and her commanderr "The Spamrow Hawk, and Harry Sutherland." "Harry Sutherland!" "Yes, captain; your old friend." "He knows you, then, and the Sea King?" "Just so surely as I know you, captain." "This alters and complicates maters." "As bow for the better or the worse, captain?' "It is too long to explain now. If he knew yon not, ail were plain sailing; as it is, I scarce know whether to say bettor or worse. He owes me some kind

ness, and I him some reparation. I will think of this; and, Atherley, be sure I

will speak to you, and that fully, after I have spoken with Montgomery." Manly gazed at Montgomery as he entered the cabin with a steadf ast and halfmelancholy eye, and asked, as he signed him to take a seat:

"Do you know the character of the ship

on which you are aboard?" "I can guess at it, at least, Captain Manly, by the ensign I saw flying at its gaff soon after we came on board." "Ay, indeed;" replied the other,

thoughtfully, "that was a blunder. But

let me teJl you, sir, bad as she may be.

she has never sailed or fought under that ensign yet whatever she may do here

after." "Indeed? What is she, then?"

"She was the finest privateer that ever floated, and I was her commander. She

was the Sea King, known half the world

over. She is now the Santa Maria, Af

rican trader, slaver, rover, what you will." "And if you take command of her, as I

have heard you asked to do, may I inquire under what flag and what commis

sion she is to sail?" "You may, if you answer me, one question." "Ask it." "Do you intend to remain on board of us?" "I do." "She is to sail under my flag, and under a roving commission." "In other words, to become a pirate?" "You have said it." "We are friends, Manly, are we not? You have saved my life; we have fought side by side, in the same good cause; we are here together, fugitives from a certain and cruel fate at the hands of those dastardly dons, on board this ship through your agency so that in fact you have a second time saved my life we are friends, are we not?" "So far we are, and it shall not be my fault if we continue not so." . "Tedl me, then, Captain Manly, what can induce you, you whose great deeds and great glory have never yet been disgraced by any act of darkness, you whose name in our country would be hailed with delight from one end of the Union to the other as Hie bravest of the sons of liberty, the tamer of the insolent Bed Cross you, whose 'recent deeds here would but add to the luster of your reception at home what can induce you, short of madness, to accept the office of a chief of buccaneers, a captain of butchers, robbers and assassins?" "Let me reply by another question: What can induce you, whose position is at least as enviable as my own at home, to accept the office, not of a chief, but

of a private buccaneer?"

Montgomery gazed wistfully, as if in doubt, before he made answer. "My question first yours afterward.

What can induce you to become, captain?" "It is the very same I have been asking myself these two hours, and I can give you. no answer, unless it be that I have given myselfFaith, I don't know!' " "Can you avoid it, captain?" "What should hinder?" "If we go ashore there," replied Montgomery, pointing to Taonpico, "we shall .be shot in the back by tt Spaniards as traitors, rebels, I care not what If we go on board yonder, we shall be strung up by the neck to the yard-arm, as coming from on board a notorious pirate." "Not quite so fast. The captains of American men-of-war know as well as any other men in the world the virtues of 'any port in a storm, and I doubt not the commander of yon tight schooner would go on board a buccaneer himself to avoid being shot in the back. No, no; there is no talk about hanging. If you and I were to jump into the dingey, how long would it take us to pul-i with tMs ebb-tide to yon cruiser?" "An hour at most." "At most. Well, we have been fighting for Morelos and liberty our uniforms vouch for us every American knows Morelos; every American loves liberty. We are fugitives from a cowardly and cruel enemy, seeking the protection of our own flag who shall refuse it to us?" "Will they let you have a boat hence for such a purpose, Captain Manly?" "They will, sir. Why not?" "Wild they not fear betrayal, sir?" "No, man, sir ,ever feared betrayal at my hands who knew me, and these men know me to their hearts' cores. Besides, they fear nothing. If they fight that cruiser it will be for fun. They can escape from her as easily as I now speak it. If I leave them they will escape hex." "Then, to return to my old question, why will you leave them?" "And again I will answer by another question, why shall we not leave them?" "I cannot." "And wherefore?" Montgomery was silent "I answered your question, Montgomery, under an implied promise. Now I ask mine. What can induce you to become a buccaneer?" "It wild be long to tell." "We have the night before us, and I ask you in your own words, are we not friends?" "We are," replied Montgomery, cor- ! dially, shaking his offered hand; "and 1

you have a right to ask it and I will an' swer; but first, do you know who com' mands yon cruiser?" "I do. Harry Sutherland." "Even so. Do you know the man? moan personally."

"I do," answered Manly, gloomily,

"and owe Mm a deep debt."

"Do you do you? I also. Manly, on

your life, what debt? vhat sort of debt,

I mean?"

"Of penitence," answered the other,

"and deepest reparation.

"And I of the deepest, direst, deadliest vengeance. I caarnot receive has protec

tion; rather had I be shot, coward-like,

in the back by the Spaniard. I cannot breathe the same air with him; it would stifle me. I cannot eat the bread of his

hospitality; it would choke me. Better

disgrace, infamy, death on the gibbet-' "Ah! I remember," replied Manly, in

terrupting him, but in a meditative rather

than an abrupt manner "I remember.

You fought him and he pinked you. But

you are not the fellow to bear a grudge

for that Now, answer me why do you

so hate this Sutherland?"

"Because throughout my life he has

crossed me, thwarted me, conquered me.

In the paths of fame, of love, of ven geance, my star has ever paled before his

Now listen" and eagerly, vehemently, he

began the recital of their fin-st boyish rivalry;, of his own attempt to rescue the

child from the burning house; of his fail

ure; of his bitter disappointment; of

Sutherland's arrival and success; of the

hatred he conceived against him from that moment; of the insult and defiance he then offered Mm, and of the vengeance

he had then resolved to take upon his

head.

"Later," continued Montgomery, "the very night that Anna Hamilton refused

me for Ms sake, and told me so, as I was

going from her house I met Mm ay, Mm

the preferred above me by that pure

angel descending the steps of Trevor's door, fresh from her company. We met

I reproached, defied, challenged him

we fought you know the rest! Now,

have I cause to hate him?"

Manly paused, and mused deeply before

he answered. "I cannot say ay," he replied, at last. "I cannot say no! for if

he wronged you, he intended, nay, he knew it not. It is all a mystery on the

very night when you two first met, we three first met on that night, I brought Harry Sutherland on board tMs sMp in which, we now sit On the next day I

sent him to Anna's father with common

dations, wMch made him at once one of

the family." "You sent him, Manly?"

"Tush! Manly not me. My name is

Hamilton, the brother of her " "The man who eloped with Suther

land's mother!" exclaimed Montgomery,

starting.

Hamilton glared at him for an instant,

clinched Ms right hand, raised it as if he would have struck him, but after a pause

dashed it agaonst his own breast, saying: "Thou hast said it!"

There was a moment's pause, for both

were thunder stricken. Hamilton recov

ered himself first, and continued: "To my

certain knowledge they were engaged long

Defore sine ever saw you, before she ever heard your name. So, you see, he has

not wronged you." "Ha! has he not?'! replied Montgom

ery, fiercely; 'nor Anna Hamilton, per-

naps; why dad he not marry her why " "Did he not marry her?" "Do you not know he did not?"

"iahortly after your duel I sailed for

this country, and have returned no more, nor sought for any tidings from a land whence I could hope for no good ones." "On my recovery Sutherland had disappeared, no one them knew whither, but it soon appeared that he was ordered to that very ship, the Sparrow Hawk. He had left Anna, without a word, without a farewell letter, without a parting token. Everyone knew that she was in despair." "He is incapable of dishonor." "Is he incapable of it? Say, rather, of what is it he is not capable? Hark you! Did you ever hear of a fair girl, Carlotta, the daughter of the Governor yonder?" And Montgomery pointed in the direction of the city. (To be continued.) Noisy Fo. A dear old lady from the country went to London to visit her married daughter, and came back with wonderful experiences. London did not show its best face to the simple countrywoman. It was enveloped in fog during the first two or

three days of her visit and as her bed

room looked out upon the railway, she was troubled by the very necessary

noise of the fog signal. She came down to breakfast after her first restless

night, and anxiously inquired the cause of the strange banging she had heard

so often during the hours of darkness.

"Oh, that was due to the fog," ex

plained her son-in-law, and as she ask

ed no further question he let the subject

drop.

Her visit over, the good woman re

turned to the country full of the won

derful sights and sounds of London life.

"Did you see a Lonnen fog, grannv?"

asked one of her listeners, as granuy expatiated on the strangeness of the great city.

"Ay, that I did," replied granny; "and

I heard 'un, too!"

"Heard 'un, granny?" exclaimed an.

other listener. "How didst hear a fog?"

"Why," answered the old lady, in

perfect sincerity, "Lonnen fog baint

like ours. Every now and then it gvesi off wi' a rare bang."

War FiiiMls lYoin ftoat. A firm of Enuli;h sogjimaluvs which

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RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD.

Populist State Convention Complete Ticket Placed in Nomination Superintendents for State Fair Installation of Dr. Kane at Wabash College.

Populists of Indiana in State convention at Indianapolis named the following ticket: Governor, A. G. Burkhart, Tipton; Lieutenant Governor, C. JM. Wal;ers, Indianapolis; Secretary of State, Dr. W. T. Carmichael, Columbus; Auditor, John W. Wales, Hancock County; Treasurer, W. H. Kunz, Logansport; Attorney General, G. T. Boger, Shelby County; reporter Supreme Court, Charles E. Huffman, Clay County; superintendent public instruction, Prof. William P. Beasly, Knox County; State statistician, A.. L. Grindle, Starke County; national electors, Samuel Walker, Hancock County, and A. H. Rowley, Columbus; members of the national committee, N. H. Motsinger of Portland, A. G. Burkhart of Tipton and Thomas S. East of Madison County; Supreme judge, first district, S. M. Holcomb. Resolutions were adopted favoring government ownership, the

same treatment oi goia ana silver aw.

United States mints at the present raJ Df 16 to 1, the election of President, VicePresident and Supreme judges by direct rote, initiative and referendum, opposition to trusts, municipal ownership, additional pensions and the "issue by the general government without the intervention of banks of such value of full legal tender paper money as may be sufficient for the needs of the people."

As to a Client. "He is the most obstinate Ran T eve? law," said the first lawyer. "Yes?" said his friend. "Yes; he hates to take advice eve. when he pays for it." Pucisl Our Increase of Insanity. Much discussion has been aroused lately by the alarming increase of insanity. Our high living is the cause assigned. In the rush for money, men and women neglect their health until the breakdown comes; The best way to preserve th health is by a faithfnl use of Bietter' Stomach Bitters. It cures st03r,adU ills, such as constipation, dyspepsia and biliousness. Ike Vessels. 'r-9 It is only a few years g'.ice the launching of a lake steamer with a carrying capacity of 4,000 tons was be lleved to have marked the maximum limit to the size of such vessels. Now a steamer has been launched with capacity of more than 9,000 tonsv Cleveland Leader.

Blood Humors

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Fair Superintendents. At the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture President Jones announced the appointment of the following department superintendent's of the State fair: Admissions, E. A. Robinson of Rocklane, grand stand, James E. McDonald of Ligonier; speed, W. T. Beauchamp of Terre Haute; horses, Mortimer Levering of Lafayette; beef cattle, M. S. Claypool of Muncie; dairy cattle and dairy products, Cott Barnett of Logansport; swine, Mason J. Niblack of Vincennes; sheep, John L. Thompson of Gas City; poultry, Sid Conger of Flat Rock; art, John L. Davis of Crawfordsville; horticulture, Knode Porter of Hagerstown; agriculture, John C. Haines of Lake; mechanical, W. W. Stevens of Salem; privileges, H. L. Now'in of Lawrenceburg. President Jones -;o appointed the following executive committee: W. W. Stevens of Salem; W. T. Beauchamp of Terre Haute, E. A. Uobison of Rocklane and J. L. Thompson of Gas City. Dr. Kane Is Installed. The Rev. William P. Kane was formal:y inducted into the presidency of Waoash College at Crawfordsville with impressive ceremonies, in the presence of 1,500 people, including 500 visiting alumni and former students. Dr. M. L. Hines of Indianapolis presided. The venerable ex-president, Joseph Farrand Tuttle, D. D. , LL. D., delivered the charter and keys of the college to the new president, who then delivered his inaugural address. Addresses were made by Prof. John L. Campbell in behalf of the faculty, the Rev. D. P. Putnam of Princeton for the alumni, A. E. Tinkham for the students.

Dies in a Railway Station. Mrs. George F. Field, traveling from Donaldson, Ark., to Fair Haven, Vt., died in the union station at Indianapolis, surrounded by her three small children. Mr. Field died in Arkansas and a week later a child died. The mother was ill and the 15-year-old daughter took charge pf their affairs and started with her mother and two small sisters for the old pome in Vermont.

Within Our Borders. Sullivan will incorporate. Gypsies around Clayton. Ducks are plentiful on the Kankakee. Muncie is going into the park- building business. Vincennes wants a $200,000 Govern

ment building.

South Bend will be redistricted, and a

new ward added.

GreenslDurg schools are troubled with

a siege of playing hookey.

Herman Schroeder has been appointed

postmaster at Smithson.

Some one tried to burn the sanitarium

at Cartersburg Springs the other day.

Seventeen-year-old daughter of H. S.

Daniels, Union City, has disappeared.

Johnson County hens are beginning to

come off of the nest with spring chickens.

Death of Clarence Betts, 29, of spinal

meningitis, has caused excitement at Rus

sia vi lie.

Schools have been closed and a revival

discontinued at Vernon because of scarlet fever.

Terre Kauto Council made an appropri

ation to help the Board of Health fight smallpox.

Work on the electric line from Muncie

to Hartford City will begin with the

shoots of spring.

The old citizens of Mooresville cele

brated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the place.

Jack Shashberger, Goshen, who was

crippled on the Lake Shore Railroad, has been granted a pension and $2,000 back

ay. A large number of business houses

were destroyed or damaged by a fire at Pwensville. Total loss $15,700, insurance $1,100.

William Buflington, insane over poli

tics, refused to leave tiie Aiuncie jail witn

lis relation, until given a shotgun and latchet to protect himself.

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