Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — Page 7

DANA'S OLD SHIPMATE.

A Survivor of “Two Tears Before the Mast” Still Alive in California. At Santa Barbara, San Pedro, San Jnan, Capistrano and San Diego one is rare to have*Tw« Yeirs Before the Mast* and its author brought to one’s attention, not only from the pleasure derived in noting bow the remarkably accurate and comprehensive de-criptions of the features of those places, though written in 1835, are just as correct in 1890, but this American classic is constantly brought to tne front by residents of the places named, who take a local pride in the renown achieved by the book, and 60 indirectly by the place of their habitat.on. This local self-sufficiency and jealousy of other points has become a characteristic feature of Southern California. Possibly prompted by this desire for a little bit-of local notoriety, writes a corjesposrdent of the New York Tribune from Los Angeles, a friend who resides at San Diego writes me that he has discovered a human relic m the grizzled, gnarled, salted person of one “Jack” Stewart, who claims to have been a shipmate of Dana’s on the voyage of the Alert from the coast to Boston, and wtios? story is fully substantiated. When Jack sprang ashore with Dana at Boston he *was a lithe, active, able seaman; to-;lay he is, my correspondent writes, “a decrepit, palsied old man of eighty odd years. He sailed out -of Boston harbor on the Alert on her next trip to the West Coast, and he sailed'out of his Saxon energy into the Latinized languor of Span-•ish-American existence at old San Diego, haw Jack recently. He lives in an old adobe in the shadow of the ruins of the old Mission Church; the house has no 'windows, no conveniences; the floor wore ■out possibly half a century ago, but no one has had any time in which to repair • it. It was probably dilapidated years ago when Jack, just in the first stages of being Mexicanized. took to his casa his dark-skinned half In lian and half Spaa>ish bride, perhaps pretty then, but now * wrinkled black old woman. Jack has a daughter, a good-looking young woman, who had enough ambition to get a public -school education, but to her, no more 'than to her father, are repaired floo ®, windows, or anything else that requires much time to secure, necessities. “Jack, after a brief stay in Boston, had -sailed cack to California on the Alert as her second mate. She came into San Diego Bay to load with hides again, and here Jack had some hot words with his captain, and by some means getting his liberty came ashore and stayed. I asked him if he bad ever read Mr. Dana’s book. Yes, he had heard Dana had written u book about his seafaring life, and he had bought a copy of it and he had read it came to a part which told fao<w in a nasty blow there was reefing which Dana did because the rest hung back and soldiered, and he did not care to read any more. In fact, the old sea-dog broadly intimated that Dana had paintpd himself in very glowing co’ors. He did not seem to think much of Dana as a sailor nor as a chronicler. I asked the brown-eyed, black-haired daughter if she had re A the book. No, she had not read it. She ‘had net much time in which to read. “Jack, I found, cared little or nothing for anything in the outside world. He had rarely been away from Old Blown since the day he went ashore from the Alert. All through the wonders worked since 1849 he has siestaed away life in his adobe casa with his semi-raced, semitropic helpmate. He cared nothing lor the reflected greatness I tried to throw upon him, so I came awav leavingthe two relics of the past of California, Jack Stewart and Old Town, both of which Mr. Dana would recognize at a glanoe today, though both have bevin rudely handled by time.” I hope my friend is not deceived. There is a poetic Alness in the idea of old San Diego and this shipmate of Dana’s going through all these years of deeay together.

Noble Unselfishness.

On the 27th of December, 1885, one <of the American line of steamers—the Lord Goueh —while on its way from Liverpool to Philadelphia, sighted a Gloucester ■ fishing schooner in distress. The wind was blowing a gale, and the schooner, almost disabled, and with three or four of her crew already washed into the ocean,' was flying the signal for help. Captain of the steamship saw the fearful peril which a rescuing party! must encounter, but his' call for velum-! teers was promptly answered by the. mate and a crew of brave men, and preparations were made for the desperate trip.! To the astonishment of all, while the' boat was being lowered, the flag of di«-j tress on the schooner’s mast was hauled, down. Perplexed at this movement, the hardy rescuers hesitated, but it was! •ifinally decided that the boat should go. With great difficulty the schooner was trenched, and upon her deck were found .twelve men utterly without hope except • from outside aid. It was necsssary to •make two trips, and the bold sailors of the Lor I Gough took half the suffering .men and toiled through the wild waters to their own ship, returning as soon as possible for the others. When all were safe onboard the steamer,. Captain Huges asked toe schooner’s master, Captain George W. Pendleton, why he bad lowered the distress flag. The reply was: “We saw th*t you were preparing to make an effort fco save us, but we saw, also, that it wat a sea in which it was ▼ery doubtful whether a boat would live. I said, then, to my men, ‘Shall we let those brave fellows risk their lives to save ours?’ .and they answered, ‘.No!’ Then I hauled down the flag.” The story is a noble.one on both sides. The men on the schooner were worth savin ', st all hazards,,and the men on the steamer were worthy to save them.

The Good Old Days of Dueling.

The study of dueling in France is very curious. Henry IV, encouraged dueling, much as Louis XIV. tried to discourage it During Henry’s reign more than 4,0U0 gentlemen fell in duels, for in those days seconds were apt to light at the same time as the principals. Then the duel continued until one adversary at least was dead, and the murderer always retained his place and prestige in tbe social world. Louis XIV. was in the habit of launching edicts against duelists, but his •diets never made the slightest impression, Le Grande Monarque was rather inconsistent, for. while issuing edicts, be wished it distinctly understood that all arnur officer* must settle their quarrels

recording to the rules of honor or lose their rank. Louis Philippe tried to enforce e law against dueling, and his law is the one 6npposed to be in u-e at.the present day; for there is a theoretical law in France, alawthat is seldom put in practice. A man kilts his adversary in a duel, but is punished only if he has violated the recognized rules. — Philadelphia Inquirer.

A Clever Diamond Robbery.

The death of the famous thief, Walter Stewart, alias Sheriden, in a Montreal prison recalls a bold robbery committed in a diamond merch int s store by him and a pal. ten years ago, which for skill has never been equaled in Philadelphia. Then Sheriden was the most expert diamond thief in America, and a decoy jewel box in the possession of Joseph K. Davidson is the only relic of the daring theft and the mute reminder of the skill of the master thief. Though the two thieves were arrested for the crime some time later not a shadow of the jewels was ever seen by the victim or the detectives. The box is a tin one about eight inches long, four inches wide and (one inch deep. It contains white aud blue papers, usually inclosing loose stone, but 6a.t is the substance in them. ’loward the end of March, 1880, Sheriden, m company with Dave Cummings, another noted crook, visited Davidson’s place and purchased for SBO a diamond ring. They carefully noted tbe exact shape, size aud appearance of the diamond box while selecting tue stone from the collection. Iwo daj s later they came back, looked at the box again and de-parted-without purchasing. When Davidson his trusty box he found its jplace filled with the salt paper. While the salesman was busy they substituted theifalse box, and were perfectly successful in .playing their trick.

A Lively Horse.

Arthur Simmons has a Texas pony on his farm at Chokee whose ability as a jumper cannot be surpassed. He is a •diminutive specimen of that breed of horseflesh, aud a day or two ago was put into a big box or crate for shipment to Americas, there being no stock cat convenient at the time. The pony and box were placed upon a box oar and the train pulled out. The little sample of Texas cyclone soon got tired of his close quarters, and while the train was running at a speed of thirty miles an hour, kicked the box into a cocked hat, and m»de a leap for liberty. He struck terra firma right side up with care, and when the train men came back to vie w his cold remains the t-aid remains were quietly nibbling at a keg of iron spikes on the side of tfie road, and it took four men aod a boy an hour to run down and'Capture him. At least, that is what the conduefcor said. —Amtricus (Qa ) Times.

The Horse Blew First.

There is a time for everything, and the secret of success in life lies in doing th ngs at just the right minute. A veterinary surgeon had occasion to instruct a colored stableman how to administer medicine to an ailing horse. He was to get a common tin tube—a bean-blower—-put a dose of medicine into it, insert one end of the tube into the horse’s mouth, and blow vigorously into the other end. and so force the medicine down the horse’s throat. Half an hour afterward the colored man appeared at the surgeon’s office, looking very much out of sorts. 1 “What is the matter?” inqmired the doctor, with some concern. “ Why, boss, dat hoss he—he feJe-w fust!”

Discriminative Advertising.

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The Reason for It.

“After standing the opposition of parents and the machinations of wicked friends io part us, Mabel and I have quarreled of our own accord." “Why, it was only yesterday I saw you! goiugio church together. ” “Yes,, that’s the trouble. You see, we both thoughtlessly joined the same-ohoir. ” An ~old lady living at Lewieburg, Oregon,,picked up an Indian arrowhead tthat is quite a relic. It is black flint interspersed with quartz, pearl and emeorald, and under the microscope exhibits a roseate hue of exquisite beauty. The Molalla Indians forty years ago told the whites of a rock south of Mount Hood in ■the mountains that shone with such indense brightness as to excite superstatwmi un ithe-s ivage breast to such an extent, that they feared to approach the sparkling luminary. There is not much credulity to be attached to Indian tradition, but if the stone from which this arrow was es-i itraofed could be located, gems of great: value might be found.

A bomantic young woman named Barbara, who, gets her mail at Oketo, Kan., wnofce .her address on an egg, and in the course of time a postal card arrived at the Oketo office from James Miller, of 521 Flushing .avenue, Biooklyn, N. Y., saving that in a lot of eggs received at his store this one was found, and if the young Indy was so inclined, he would be pleased to hear further from her; a'«o that he was single and salone, bnt that it was by no means certain«that he would always remain so. Further developments are awaited. An electric railway in Siam has been incorporated and will be built at once from Bangkok to Paknam, a distance of thirty miles. This >road is to cost $400,000, and Siamese capital will alone be nsed. An electric light ''otnpany has also been organized and the plant ordered for Bangkok. The typewriter has invaded the British war office, and with such success that it is proposed to transfer some of the work at present done by clerks to women with their machines. The greatest deposit of manganese ever found in the United States hr/s been opened up at Tredegar, Calhoun County, 8. C. It is reported from the rnby mines of Burmah that a ruby weighing 304 carats h&* been frond.

Life on the Canal.

From the opening of summer nntil the end of autumn, five thousand families voyage on the New York canals, in the winter taking up a habitation in the harbor. Then the children go to the public schools, and the young people to dances; the lovers to courting aud the old folks visit. Five blessed months are speut in enjoying life, and if the earnings from the seven busy months on the water do not permit of the snug little sum of five hundred dollars being l»id aside for a rainy day, after the 1 ving and pleasures of the winter’s vacation have been paid for, the season is lamented as having been a very poor one. The c nil boatman knows the world better than the world knows him. His daughters are in Vassar; his sons in Yale and Harvard and Princeton. He is perhaps a college graduate himself, and, indeed, many of the boatmen are. He has a comfortable fortune accumulated, or a good foundation for it laid. He has spending money in no mean measure, and he is happy. When his sons and daughters have graduated they will come hack to the canal for a summer vacation, but when tbe winter sets in future doctors, lawyers, ministers, missionaries—perhaps another President —will go out from the old canal-boat home aud bid it a tearful farewell forever. Many of the children, though, ire satisfied with the e lsy-go-lucky life, and grow up in the shoes of their fathers.

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