Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 32, Hope, Bartholomew County, 1 December 1892 — Page 3

TUE CRUISE OF THE CASCO. Stories Not told by Stevenson in His Soutb Sea letters. San Francisco Cor. to tho Chlcaco Inter-Oeean Walter Cook lives in Oakland now. Last year he lived among the South Pacific Islands. He’s a capital yarn spinner, and full to the brim of South Sea reminiscences. “Have you been reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s story about the ‘Beach at Fajesa'?" ho asked mo one •day last week. And then without waiting for a reply he sailed in and began telling the yarns that I am now telling you. Cook lived in the South Seas a good many years, and is well known by all the traders and masters that sail from this port. “I was a trader down there myself,” he began: ‘‘used to swap plug tobacco and gaudy calico for copra and shells. Had a big station at Tahito, on the island of Tahiti. Knew the Canakas like a. b. c. and stood in with the big chiefs, and all that sort of thing. “ Some time in 1889 Stevenson came dow theie in tho Casco. You remember the schooner he left San Francisco in? The same?one. “What should I see one fine day but the Casco sailinsr into the harbor. I had the run of things there and I kept a Whitehall on the beach and could pick out a crew of Kanakas at a moments notice. I used to turn in almost any way. “So I out in tho Whitehall after her, and caught her, too, in good season. ‘Twenty-five dollars,’ I says to the tall, good looking white man dressed like a Kanaka who leaned over the bowrail and bargained with me. He thought that was too much, and he said he guessed he’d let the Kanakas steer him in. “ ‘All right,’ says I, but they don’t know the rocks here.’ Then I called out to the Kanakas in their language that there was $10 in it for them if they’d reef him. They had three natives aboard,and those three knew their business, I can tell you. Inside of twenty minutes the tall white man sung out for me to come aboard. The Kanakas had failed him badly. Well, I went on board and steered him in. ‘Is there a Scotchman on the island?’ was the first question ho put to me when we cast anchor. “ ‘That there is,’said I ‘an old fellow who lives over the hills back of tho station. He has a brogue on him as thick as your arm.’ “‘All the better,’ says be. And he wanted to see the Scotchman first thing. He paid a good $10, to, for the horse and ri» to drive him over there. Hut that s getting ahead of my story. “ T'm tho man that writes books,' he said. ‘My name's Stevenson. I want to go over the island to take some pictures.’ “Well, in transferring his camera from the schooner into the Whitehall it tumbled overboard. You could look down into the thirty fathoms of water and see her lying there by the rocks as plain like as if she was floating on the water. “Stevenson was sore, put out over his loss, and be showed it, too, and that’s where he made the big mistake. If he’d treated the thing as a joke and offered the Kanakas a plug of tobacco to fish it up. ho could have carried it ashore with him. “But what does lie do? He ups and offers the Kanakas $10 a head for diving for it, and when two or three made believe to try for it, and came up without it,Stevenson got excited. “‘I’ll give $50 for that machine” he says, and then all hope of getting it lied, for the Kanakas figured it out that Stevenson would offer tjiat much for the recovery of his own property it must bo a very valuable thing, and would bo worth much more to them. Stevenson had but one camera with him, and as the island contained some of the finest tropical scenery thereabouts, he hated to leave it without getting some photographs. But he went on over the hill to see his Scotchman, leaving his camera, like, McGinty, at the bottom of the sea. “No sooner was his back fairly turned than the Kanakas began a grand scramble for that machine, as though it was so much gold dust. You couldn't have twisted a lamb's tail twice before they had it high and dry on the beach. “They carried it Off in triumph, fully expecting to sell it to some white man tor a fortune. “Thre’e days latter I bought it from them for a plug of niggerhead, and when Stevenspn came that way again I gave him his camera, none the worse for its soaking. “That night we all had our fill of champagne on board the Casco. The next day Stevenson made a tour of the Island with his photographing apparatus. “Yes, there’s many a good story to be told of life in the South Sea Islands. For all it’s so balmy and quiet down there a man lives more and sees more of the world in four years on the island than many men

do in forty years who stay at homo in a big city," continued Cook. It were worth your while to.know Walter Cook, if only to listen to his South Sea stories. Were he an accomplished litterateur, he might write syndicate letters that would win him more fame than those of Robert Louis Stevenson have won for their author. “And talking of Stevenson again,” said Cook, “there never was a bigger greenhorn struck the islands than the author of The Wrecker.’ “When he first came to Tahiti ho hunted all around for a dry dock,and was badly put out when informed that there was no such thing short of Australia. “What am I going to do? he asked. “The Casco wants scraping badly. I suppose I’ll have to beach her tc have it done.” “Not a bit of it,” wo told him. “Give a dozen Kanakas a plug of tobacco and set them to work with the promise of another plug a piece when the scraping is done. “But how are they going to get at her while she is in the water?” asked the perple ed author. “Leave that to me,” I told him. and he did so. He was a good deal surprised to see those Kanakas dive under the Casco's bottom and scrape her clean in less time than it would have taken to dry-dock the schooner, had there been such a convenience at hand. Stevenson watched them all day long. He seemed fairly enchanted with their spryness in the water.and when the sharks began to gather about them he cried out to bring them all onboard in a boat. But the natives never headed him. They feared the man-eating sharks no more in the water than on dock. An able bodied Kanaka, you know, can out-swim a shark any day. When the big fish get to) near one of tho native scrapers he would get a kick or a punch behind the fins, and that would settle the skark so far as tho native was concerned. If one of the sharks got too persistent in his attentions on the scraping Kanaka, then the native would-stop his work long enough to jab his scraping tool into the shark's belly a few times. But this the na tives were loath to do, for it interferred with their work, tho blood from the wounded shark discoloring the water and making it opaque, so they could uot see the hull of the schooner. Stevenson was simply amazed at all this, and instead of giving each Kanaka another plug of tobacco he paid them $5 apiece for their day’s work. There were a dozen drunken Kanaka in town that night. The best joke on Stevenson that I can remember now occurred in the Marquesas Archipelago. At that time the author had a crow of six Kanakas. One night in the schooner Poe, which means pearl, I spoke the Casco, thirteen miles off the reefs. She was in distress, so I went aboard to see what was the matter. There I found Stqyensoj and bis Captain alone —not another soul on board. “What’s the matter,” says I. “Where’s your crew? You can’t get in alone.” “Of course we can’t,” said Stevenson', “and that’s just the trouble. The crew has deserted us, every man Jack of them. An hour ago they all scampered off over the deck rail and are now swimming home or are drowned.” “Never you fear that they’ll drown,” I said. “A thirteen mile swim for a Kanaka is only a pleasure trip. There’s only one way to drown a native, and that’s to hold bis head under water. “Then Stevenson told us how the crew came to desert him. One of them had been sent aloft and told to lower the gaff topsail and make fast the block. The Kanaka obeyed orders and all went well till a squall struck the Casco a little later —one of those tropical storms that do a heap of damage while they last, but quickly blow over. “When the smalt struck the Casco the gaff topsail blew off, showing that the Kanaka had fastened it carelessly. In the excitement the Captain lost his temper and gave the offending native a cuff. “Instantly those six natives went below and packed up their scant belongings. They came on deck naked, with their clothes tied on their heads. In another instant the Casco's crow was in the water, swimming for shore, thirteen miles away; “Just at that place, too, the sea is infested with sharks, some of them fifteen feet long, but not one of the six men met with a mishap, and three days' later, when I came back that way, I carried them back to Tahiti “Well, the end of it was that I had to lend the Casco three of my natives. This made me awfully short handed, and you bet Stevenson had to pay for it. But without this help Stevenson would have been wrecked sure. No two men could have taker a schooner over those reefs.” The Carl Junction (Mo.) Standard announces that it will take a limiter? number of walnuts and hicory nut,on subscriptioa

WORK OF TRAIN-ROBBERS* A Northern Pacific Train -Held Up.” and Robbed. The Overland wost-liound train on tho Northern Pacific road was “held up’’ Thursday evening near Hot Springs, Wash., by throe masked men. who robbed all the passengers In tho Pullman sleeper, Wadena, six in all. The robbers entered tho car, It Is believed, at Hot Springs, us the train had not gone five miles from that place, when the men entered tho r»ur part of tho sleeper. The first man they mot was E. li. Miller, of Portland, Ore., who was In tho smoking compartment. Ho was relelved of 810and a gold watch, and then told him lo > march in ahead of the robbers, which lie did. One of tho highwaymen wont to the extreme end of tho car, while other 1 * stood guard at tho end they entered. Al' were dressed In dark clothes, overcoats’ slouch hats, and wore handkerchiefs over their faces, with holes cut out for eyes They placed revolvers at tho heads of tho passengers and commanded them to hold up their hand^ As tho robbing was going on,S. J. Freedman, of Portland, Ore., came In from an adjoining cur, and as bo entered, not knowing what was goii g on, ho was commanded to hold up his hands,but not complying quick enough, tho robber nearest to him fired a sh >t through tlie side of tho car, and then Freedman understood what was wanted and lie handed over his valuables. Tho robbers did not molest tho ladles, of whom there were four, with two children, telling them to keep quiet and no harm would come to them. This they did. A tier robbing everybody in the ejir, and without going to any of the other cars, tho robbers prilled the bell cord, giving the proper signals, and when the car stopped they pulled the bell tostartagain and then jumped off, iled to the woods, BAUD KNOBBEaS IN OFFICE. Taney County, Missouri, In Control of the Gang that Stands for Murder and Outrages, At tho recent election In Taney county, Mo., tho Bald Knobbers, who have boon keeping quiet since five of their ringleaders were hanged three years ago. carried that county and are again in control of affairs. They are already becoming arrogant and have served notice on several officer?, who helped to prosecute them, that they must leave tho country. Tho lawlessness, which for a time was notso prevalent, has broke out again. Recently the only church In the county was burned and the neighboring counties have been suffering from depredations by horse thieves. Taney county Is probably tho only organized county In tho United States where tho element recognized as lawbreakers constitute a political power. THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, Not. 3a. 1803 Quotations for Indianapolis when not specified GRAIN. Wheat—No. 3 red, 67c; No. 3 rod, 63c; wagon wheat, 66c, torn No. 1 white, 41c; No. 3 white, 41c; white mixed, 41c; No. 3 white, 4Uc: No. 2 yellow. 38c; No. 3 yellow, 37><c; No. 2 mixed, 38c; No. 3 mfseil, 37Xc; car, 37pjC Oats—No. 2 white, .2 Me; No. 3 white, 14 s.c: No. 3 mixed, fSXc; rejected, Hay—Timothy, choice, 111.00; No. 1, $10.30; No. 2, $?. 0: No. 1 prairie, $ .0); No. 3. $6.00: mixed hay,$7.30; clover, $J.U0. Bran $11.00 per ton. I Wheat. | Corn. Oats. | Rye. Chicago |8 r’d TS}4 41 '4 31 Cincinnati— 3 r’d 75 4uv| S0'/i S') St. Louis. ...« r’d 68 40VJ 31 8f New York 2 r d 76VJ RH1 3654 60 Baltimore | 71 47 41 CO Philadelphia. 2 r’d ’.0 43 43 Clover Seed. Toledo I 74 43 31 7 83 Detroit 1 wh 73 43 30; i Minneapolis.. (,7 • CATTLE. Export grades $4 2a@5 00 Good to choice shippers 3 75(3l 15 Fair to medium shippers 3 25@3 50 Common shippers 3’50(u)3 25 Stockers, common to good 2 00®3 75 (kind to choice heifers 2 61(n'3 00 Fair to medium heifers 3 50@3 50 Common, thin heifers 1 2)(rt)3 65 Good to choice cows 2 50(0)3 00 Fair to medium cows 2 75®2 85 Common old cows 1 OOml 7,. Veals, good to choice 3 00.3)4 53 Hulls, common to medium 1 50«3 oo Milkers, good to choice 20003350) Milkers, common to medium... 1300:32000 HOGS, Heavy packing andshlpplng.. $5 40@5 70 Eights 5 35(35 75 Mixed 5 40(9)5 70 Heavy roughs 4 03®5 25 SHEEP. Good to choice $1 00(3)4 40 Fair to medium 3 25@3 55 .Common to medium 2 50(33 95 Lambs, good to choice 4 00@5 50 POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—Hens. 8c lb; young chickens 10c 18 lt>; turkeys, fat choice hens, 10c lb ducks, 7c 713 lb: geese,5.12(35.20 lor choice. Eggs-Shi (ipers payi ug 13(*20c. Butter—Choice country butler. 13913c; common, 8(3110c; creamery, retailing from store at 35c. Cheese—New York full cream, 11 (g 12c; skims, 5 a7c 53 It). (Jobbing prices.) F'culhors—Prime geese 40c lb; mixed duck, 20c 9 lb. Beeswax—Dark, 15c; yellow,10c (selling) Wool—New clip lino merino, 36c; coarse wool. 17(S18c; medium, 21c', black, burry, colts, choflly and broken, 15@17c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3c: No. 2 green hides, 3}<c; No. 1 G. S. bides, 4Kc; No. 2 G. S. hides, No. X tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow. 3‘(c. Horso Hldos-^$2@$2.25. Tallow—No. 1. 4c; No. 2.3%c. Grease—White, 4c; yellw, 3%c; brown, 3c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Potatoes—$2.30@’?.50 fl brl. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $3.50. Lemons—Choice. $6.50 i) box; fancy, $7.00. Pears—Kiefer, $3 $ bushel. Onions—$3 brl; Spanish, 81. 1 per •TP tc. Cabbage—Home grown,70c(9$1.00 per , 4.

INDIANA'S OFFICIAL VOTB. | Official Figure* on the ErnkltnOal Ticket (rain Every County. -3 J- V ► COUNTIES, > g t| | - o- n « £ Adams 8,908 1,847 ICO 214 Allen. 10,010 5,416 176 449 Brnh'lm’w 3,217 2,797 129 43 tsenlon 1.391 1,617 108 66 Blackford 1,340 1,203 68 324 Boone S,lo4 3,136 91 867 Brown l,37i 656 40, 93 Can-oil 2.361 2,230 191 237 Cass 4,006 3,501 294 453 Clark 4,013 3,280 54 48 Clay 3.5 8 3,005 13a| 460 Clinton 3,0.0 3,222 2 2 319 Crawford 1.529 1,276 is 200 Uavless 2,498 2,610 55 908 Dearborn 3,397 2,2(4 78 52 Decatur 2,353 2,519 143 34 I >0 Kail) 2,801 2,499 198 746 Delaware 2,862 4,108 202 335 Dlllo's 2,847 1,081 50 160 Elkhart 3,530 3,8(3 33) 193 Fayette 1,490 1.813 66 43 F.oyd 4,219 2,958 74 (5 Fountain 2,331 2,379 72 323 Franklin.. 2.859 1,610 53 17 Fulton 2,247 2,053 115 43 Gibson 2,460 3,738 243 8 8 Grant 3,590, 4,(11 5X5 3!H Greene 2,488. 2,809 67 411 Hamilton 2,193 3,627 4X1 122 Hancock 2,.'-29 1,932 71 198 Harrison 2,H0 2,114 71 183 ' : ’ks 2,038 3,020 319 93 Henry 1, 71 3,336 2 40 614 2,3'1 3,570 307 785 Uunllngt a 3,-:00 3,384 275 134 Jackson 3,363 2,333 19 70 Jasper. 937 1,304 C6 362 •lay 2.394 2,414 353 753 Jefferson 2,549 2,508 50 133 Jennings 1,381 1.715 36 ?98 Johnson 2,<06 2.093 157 213 Knox 3.147 2,653 242 523 Kosciusko 3.064 2.823 238 66 Lagrange 1,438 2.033 121 1.2 Lake 3.010 2, 54 147 4.) Luporte 4,',0!j 3,548 101 103 Lawrence 2,134] 2,529 34 157 Madison 5,733 5,380 28 1 329 Marlon 20,436] 19.5 1 581 363 Marshall 3,113] 2.5Sj 133 99 Martin i."9F 1,283 45 I'M Miami 3,4:3 2,074 180 1H Monroe 1,017 2.017 95 3<" Montg’raTy 3.841 3.825 10 If £4 Morgan 2,0 4 2,377 71 173 Newton 879 1,191 73 12f Noble 2,879 2,833 ICO 101 Ohio 001 663 3 3 Orange 1,628 1,621 30 213 Owen 1,738 1,5 9 52 247 Parke 3.013 2.503 2 78 210 Perry 2 074 1,8,0 34 86 “ike 1,957 2,038 64 314 Porter 1,937 2,187 145 12<> 1 ’osey 2,6(0 2,077 78 379 Pulaski 1.353 980 !C 245 Pntnam 2.754 2.289 169 193 Randolph 1.994 4,058 264 40’ Klnley 2,413 2,210 54 225 Rush 2.210 2,566 151 ?>■ St. Joseph 6.077 5,23) 215 107 Scott 1,043 727 37 42 shelhy 3,490 2,650 293 107 Spencer 2,496 2,478 24 169 Starke 1,003 8 0 20 3: Steuben 1,264 2,100 20,8 190 Sullivan 3,159 1,784 128 3’>1 Switzerland 1,589 1, 97 19 5! rippoeauoe 4,386 4.?5i 208 0! I’ip ton 2,008 1,786 1 36 570 Union 839 0«l 0! 11 Vnnd’r’b’rg.... 6,166 6,171 101 285 Vermillion 1,37 1, 23 81 194 Vigo 0,598 6,150 93 674 Wabash 2,4]” 3,687 250 c29 Warren 97 1,849 4 3 51 Warrick 2,16- 2,018 60 477 Washington.... 2,3? l.K 3 261 2)7 Wayne 3.72- 5.7141 3:5 203 Wells 2.725 16'.8 210] 318 White 1.806 1,807 173 227 Whitley 2,234 1,958- 173] 30 Totals .. 202.817253.92913.0’432.198 Total vole, 5 4,988. Cleveland’s plurality. 8.888. The official vole for Governor, as shown 3y tho reports to the Secretary of State, live the vote for Mathews for Governer, 5(50,002: for Chase, 253.(31; Matthews plurality, 6,979; for Attorney-General, Smith, 200,156; Farre’I, 253,846; Smith’s plurality, 6,510. Smith’s vote foil 469 behind Matthews's, whose vole was about ,'.00 short of Cleveland’s vote in Indiana. MR. ELAINE SERIOUSLY ILL. His Idiysizlans Are In Constant Attendance Upon Him. A Washington special savs: Mr. Blaine Is still a very sick man, and his physicians are in daily attendance. General alarm I s iclt among hfs many friends in Washington regarding his slow recuperation, The doctors are non-committal when questioned on tho subject of Mr, Blaine’ 8 health. They are making no predictions. “Mr. Blaine may be bolter to-day or tomorrow.” was remarked to the Herald corirospondont on Tuesday by a person thoroughly familiar with the sick room. “Hu 1 what his condition will be a week from today, or two weeks from to-day, cannot bo predicted. Mr. Blaine's health seems to lave been permanently shattered. His decline began two or throe years ago, and over since then th) current of Ills physical life has been marked by recurrences of an illness of varying character. Sometimes Ills throat troubles him. At another time cold, to which ho is subject, settles in some other part of his body. The present illness is, perhaps, more serious than ho has had for some time. It is caused by disturbed digestion, which, to a man in Mr. Blaine’s condition, must cause a severe shock to his already enfeebled sys" tom.” That Sir. Blaine will never recover normal health Is a fact that everybody in Washington Is beginning to appreciate. Even with the great care ho receives tho least baneful Influence, either of a physical or mental nature, causes a relapse Every relapse loaves him leas and less able to recover. Reassuring. — Guest (angrily')— "Confound your awkwardness! You’ve spilt half that soup down my back." Waiter at restaurant (heartily) — ‘‘Don’t mind it, sir. I’ ' n-'v some more. Bless you, thf-vF <v 0 f 8 <>up!” .7 . X " £

U0BE1IIUE sufferings. Lepers Devoured by Bears * Forests of Siberia. The world does not contain in Us broad area scene of more desolation and suffering than may be met with in the forests of Siberia. Last year the region extending from Yakoutsk to Villewlsk was visited by Miss Kate Marsden, a member of tho King’s Daughters, an American association. She rode for oyer 3.0MH miles through the woods and visited several small leoer colonies, ihe inhabitants of tho Province of Villewisk are chiefly Yakouts, writes Miss Marsden. They live in little communes, republics in themselves. They compel all who are lepers, or who have como in contact with lepers, to live in the forest in small huts far apart from human habitation. Sometimes they live for years : at other times they die speedily of privation, or are devoured by thi bear% with which the forest abounds. In this region there are four months af summer aud eight months of winter, and the lepers suffer incredibly. Miss Marsden frequently came upon solitary lepers living in the rudest of huts. The food in many cases

■ A LEPEU HUT IN SIBEIUA,

was decayed fish and the bark ol trees. * The (object of Miss Mhrsden's visit was to establish a leper settlement, where the hapless victims of the dread disease would be properly cared for, and she is now raising funds for that purpose.

That deadly manhole—The election of our ticket, sir, is bound to give business ' y

A great boom.

As I was saying when you left ms iust now, the election, etc.

“I wonder where the fellow that designed that piece of furniture erer got his Idea,”—Life.