Hope Republican, Volume 2, Number 25, Hope, Bartholomew County, 12 October 1893 — Page 3

bl’HM 1'EIUIkS OP _ laii M\i Prisoners By CliKrlM Ulckcna, (1*57) CHAPTER JII— Continued. It was soon decided to put a man uore. who should creep through e woods. see"what was coming and warn the rafts, the rafts in the mean iime to keep in the middle of the stream. The man to be put « e n °t to swim ashore, as the first thing could be more quickly done than the second. The raft convcying him to get back into midstream and to hold on along with the other as well as it could until signalled by the man. In case of danger the man to shift for himself until it should be safe to take him on board again. I volunteered to be the man. We knew that the voices and oars must come up slowly against the stream, and ourseamau knew by the set of the stream under which bank they would come. I was put ashore accordingly. The raft got off well and I broke into the wood. Steaming hot it was and a tearing place to get through. So much the better for me, since it was something for me to contend against and do. I cut off the bend of the river at a great saving of space, came to the water’s edge again and hid my-

“CAPT. CARTON,” SAYS HE, '‘fflUT IS THIS?'

self and waited. I could now hear the dip of the oars very distinctly; the voices had ceased. The sound came on in a regular tone, and as I lay hidden, I fancied the tune so played to be, “Chris’en— George—King! Chris’eu —George— King! Chris’en — George — King!'' over and over again, always the same, withjthe pauses always at the places. I had likewise time to make up my mind that if those were the pirates I could and would (barring my being shot) swim off to my raft, in spite of my wound, the moment 1 had given the alarm, and hold my own post by Miss Maryon. ■ “Chris’en-- George-King! Chris'en —George King! Chris’en—George —King!” coming up now very near. 1 took a look at the branches about me to see where a shower of bullets would be most likely to do me least hurt, and I took a look back at the track I had made in forcing my way in: and now I was wholly prepared and fully ready for them. “Chris qn George—King! Chris’en —Georg. - King! Chris’en —George —-King!'' Here they were. Who wore they? The barbarous pirates, scum of all nations, headed by such men as the hideous little Portuguese monkey and the oneeyed English convict with the gash across his face, that ought to have gashed his wicked head off? The worst men in the world picked out from the worst to do the crudest and most atrocious deeds that ever stained it? The howling, murdering, black-flag-waving, mad and drunken crowd of devils that had overcome us by numbers and by treachery? No. They were Englishmen in English boats —good blue-jackets and red-coats —marines that I knew myself and sailors that knew our seamen! At the helm of the first boat. Carton, eager and steady. lAt the holm of the second boat, Captain Maryon, brave and bold. At the hehn of the third boat, an old seaman, with determination carved into his watchful face, like the figurehead of a ship. Every man doubly and trebly armed from head to foot. Every man lying to at his work with a will that had all his heart and soul in it. Every man looking out for any trace of friend or foe, and burning to be the ffrst to do good or avenge evil. Every man with his face on fire when he saw me, his countryman who had been taken prisoner, and hailed mo with a cheer as Captain Carton's boat ran in and took me on board I reported: “All escaped, sir! All well, all here!" God bless me —and God bless them — what a cheer! It turned me weak, as I vvas passed on from hand to hand to the stern of the boat, every hand patting mo or grasping me in some'way or other, in the moment of my going by. “Hold up, my brave fellow,” savs Capt. Carton, clapping 'mo on the shoulder like a friend and giving me a flask. “Put your lips to that and they’ll be rod again. Now, boys, give way.” The banks flew by us as if the mightiest stream that ever ran was

with us: and so it was, I am sure, meaning the stream of those men’s ardor and spirit The banks flow by us, and we came in sight of the rafts —the banks flew by us, and we came alougside of the rafts —the banks stopped, and there was a tumult of laughing and crying, and kissing and shaking of hands, and catching up of children and setting of them down again, and a wild hurry of thankfulness and joy that melted every one and softened all hearts. . I had taken notice, in Capt. Carton’s boat, that there was a curious and quite new sort of fitting on board. It was a kind of little bower made of flowers, and it was set behind the captain and betwixt him and the rudder Not only was this arbor, so to call it, neatly made of fldwers, but it was ornamented in a singular way. Some of the men had taken the ribbons and buckles off their hats and hung them among the flowers; others had made festoons and streamers of their handkerchiefs and hung them there; others had intermixed such trifles as bits of glass and shining fragments of lockets and tobacco boxes with the flowers; so that altogether it was a very bright and lively object in the sunshine. But why there, or what for, I did not understand. Now, as soon as the first bewilderment was over, Captain Carton gave

the order to land for the present. But this boat of his, with two hands left in her, immediately set off again when the men were out of her and kept off some yards from the shore. As she floated there, with the two hands gently backing water to keep her from going down the stream, this pretty little arbor attracted many eyes. None of the boat’s crew, however, had anything to say about it, except that it was the captain’s fancy. The Captain—with the women and children clustering round him, and the men of all ranks grouped outside them, and all listening—stood telling how the expedition, deceived by its bad intelligence, had chased the light pirate boats all that fatal night and had still followed in their wake next day, and had never suspected until many hours too late that the great pirate body had drawn off in the darkness when the chase began, and shot over to the island. He stood telling how the expedition, supposing the whole array of armed boats to be ahead of it, got tempted into shallows and went aground, but not without having its revenge upon the two decoy boats, both of which it had come up with, overhand, and sent to the bottom with all on board. He stood telling how the expedition, fearing then that the case stood as it did, got afloat again, Dy great exertion after the loss of four more tides, and returned to the island, where they found the sloop scuttled and the treasure gone. He stood tellinsr how my officer, Lieut. Linderwood, was left upon the island, with as strong a force as could be got together hurriedly from the mainland, and how the three boats we saw before us were manned and armed and had come away, exploring the coast and inlets, in search of any tidings of us. He stood telling all this,with his face to the river; and, as he stood telling it, the little arbor of flowers floated in the sunshine before all the faces there. Leaning on Capt. Carton’s shoulder, between him and Miss Maryon, was Mrs. Fisher, her head drooping on her arm. She asked him, without raising it, when he had told so much, whether he had found her mother. “Be comforted! She lies,” said the Captain gently, “under the cocoanut trees on the beach.” “And my child, Capt. Carton, did you find my child, too? Does my darling rest with my mother?” “No. Your pretty child sleeps,” said the Captain, “under a shade of flowers.” His voice shook, but there was something in it that struck all the hearers. At that iroment there sprang from the arbor in his boat a little creature, clapping her hands and stretching out her arms, and crying, “Dear papa! dear mamma! I am not killed. I am saved. I am coming to kiss you. Take me to them, take me to them, good, kind sailors!” Nobody who saw that scene has ever forgotten it, I am sure, or ever will forget it. The child had kept quite still, where her brave grand-

mamma had put her (first whispering in her ear, “Whatever happens to me do not stir, my dear!”), and had remained quiet until the fort was deserted: she had then crept out of the trench and gone into her mother's house; and there all alone on the solitary island, in her mother’s room, and on her mother’s bed the Captain had found her. Nothing’ could induce her to be parted from him after he had brought her away with him, and the men had made the bower for her. To see those mbit now was a sight. The ;joy of the women was beautiful; the joy of those women who had lost their own children was quite scared and divine; but the ecstasies of Capt. Carton’s boat’s crew when their pet was restored to her parents, were wonderful for the tenderness they showed in the midst of roughness. As the Captain stood with the child in his arms, and the child's own little arms now clinging round his neck, now round her father's, now round her mother’s, now round some one who pressed up to kiss her, the boat’s crew shook hands with one another waived their hat over their heads, laughed, sang, cried, danced —and all among themselves without wanting to interfere with anybody—in a manner never to be represented. At last,I saw the coxswain and another, two very hard-faced men, with grizzled heads, who had been the heartiest of the hearty all along, close with one another, get each of them tne other’s head under his arm and pummel away at it with his fist as hard as he could in. his excess of joy. When we all had rested and refreshed ourselves—and very glad we were to have some of the heartening things to eat and drink that had come up in the boats —we recommenced our voyage down the river, rafts and boats and all. I said to myself, it was a very different kind of voyage now from what it had been, and I fell into my proper place and station among my fellow soldiers. But, when we halted for the night, I found that Miss Maryon had spoken to Capt. Carton concerning me. For the Captain came straight up to me, and says he, “My brave fellow, you have been Miss Maryon’s body-guard all along, and you shall remain so. Nobody shall supercede you in the distinction and pleasure of protecting that young lady.” I thanked his honor in the fittest words I could find, and that night I was placed on my old post of watching the place where she slept. More than once in the night I saw Capt. Carton come out into the air, and stroll about there, to see that all was well. I have now this singular confession to make that I saw him with a heavy heart. Yes; I saw him with a heavy, heavy heart. In the daytime, I had the like post in Capt. Carton’s boat. I had a special station of my own, behind Miss Maryon, and no hands but hers ever touched my wound. (It has been healed these many long years; but, no other hands have ever touched it.) Mr. Pordage was kept tolerably quiet now, with pen and ink, and began to pick up his senses a little. Seated in the second boat, he made documents with Mr. Kitten pretty well all day; and he generally handed in a protest about something whenever he stopped. The Captain, however, made so very light of these papers that it grew into a saying among the men, when one of them wanted a match for his pipe, “Hand us over a protest, Jack!” As to Mrs. Pordage, she still wore the nightcap, and she now had out all the ladies on account of her not having been formally and separately rescued by Capt. Carton before anybody else. The end of Mr. Pordage, to bring to an end all I knew about him, was that ho got great compliments at home for his conduct on these trying occasions, and that ho died of yellow jaundice, a Governor and a K, C. B. Sergt. Hrooce had fallen from a high fever into a low one. Tom Packer—the only man who could have pulled him the Sergeant through it —kept hospital aboard the old raft, and Mrs. Belltott, as brisk as over again, (but the spirit of that little woman, when things tried it, was not equal to appearances) was was head nurse under his directions. Before we got down to the Mosquito coast, the joke had been made by one of our men, that we should sec her gazetted Mrs. Tom Packer, vice Bclltott exchanged. When we reached the coast, wo got native boats as substitutes for the rafts; and we rode along under the land; and in that beautiful cli- ■ mate, and upon that beautiful water, the blooming days were like enchantment. Ah! They were running away faster than any sea or river, and there was no tide to bring them back. We were coming very near the settlement where the people of Silver-Store were to be left, and from which wo Marines were under orders to return to Balize. (TO BK CONTINUED.) After knives have been cleaned th“y may be brilliantly polished with charcoal powder.

THE EXTRA SESSION. In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Morgan submitted an amendment to the bill repealing the purchasing clause of the silver law. It proposes the re-cnactmcnl of the free coinage act of 1873, and tire remission of 10 per cent, of lax duties to the country which receives American standard dollars of the present weight and fineness at par as legal tender money. The silver purchase repeal bill was taken up at 11:30, and Mr. Dolph continued his speech of Monday. He sent to the clerk’s desk and had read extracts from President Clovelam’s message during his former administration, giving his views upon the subject of silver, he said that these extracts justified the statement that the success of the Democratic party was the verdict of the American people in favor of the discontinuance of the purchase of silver and of the coinage of silver dollars. In the extracts which ho had road that course had been urged by President Cleveland in unmistakable language, and the reasons for it presented. Mr. Teller asked what bethought the chances were for favorable silver legislation. Mr. Dolph replied that he did not expect any other legislation on tho silver question after repeal during this administration. He thought Cleveland was in favor of bimetallism by international agreement. Mr. Palmer said he had no authority to speak for tho President but believed that Cleveland thought that we should settle our own policy before attempting to adjust bimotallsro with foreign countries. There was considerable badgering over fiat money between Messrs. Pelfer, Jones of Nevada and Dolph. Then Mr. Allen got into the controversy and brought up tiie subject of the Brussels conference, and this brought Mr. Allison to his feet. Ho stated that in regard to tho charge of a conspiracy between great capitalists that Mr. Roihchilds bad taken tho strongest possible position in favor of silver. Mr. Allison added that the conference had adjourned for reasons which he had explained to the Senate recently, and that it had been then expected, and was now expected, by the European states that the conference would reconvene. For reasons however, which he did not understand, the reconvening of the conference had been postponed from the 30th of May till Nov. 4th, and, so far from European gov ornments not being interested in the subject, there was not one of them that was not watching, day by day, every movement made in tho United States. They were hoping that-the American government would get them out of their dilemma by continuing the purchase of silver. The debate was participated in by a large number of Senators and was especially animated until the close. In tho House, Tuesday, the debate on the election bill was continued and was devoid of interest. When the Senate met.Wednosday, there was one Democrat and six Republicans present. After some delay a quorum was secured. Mr. Morgan reported a bill making appropriations to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to enforce the Chinese exclusion act, which was referred. The repeal bill being taken up Mr. Butler addressed the Senate in favor of a compromise. Mr. Butler denied that there had been filibustering on tho repeal bill. Ho defended the President from the charge of interference with tho legislation of the Senate. Mr. Blackburn then spoke in opposition to repeal. He did not favor cither the House bill or the Senate substitute. Il« was a bimetallist in the broadest sense. In conclusion, Mr. Blackburn said: “I appeal to those my party who sit around me, who have been trusted to guard tho fortunes and to guide the destiny of the party to which we belong, lead us, I pray you, to a fair, a righteous and speedy settlement of this vated issue.” (Applause in the galleries.) Mr. Call then addressed tho Senate in opposition to tho bill. Without concluding his remarks, Mr. Call yielded to a motion for an executive session, and the Senate adjourned. In the House, Wednesday, the election bill debate was resumed by Mr. Compton, in supportof tho measure. Mr. Sweet denounced Mr. Cleveland for his course on tho silver question. Healnhned that Andrew Johnson had been impeached for acts less odious than tho refusal of the administration to execute the Sherman purchase law and the Geary exclusion act. He said the Republicans of the House and Senate were capable of formulating a policy that would prevent tho Democratic party from placing raw materials on the free list, unless a corresponding reduction was made on Eastern manufactured articles. Mr. Hand was the next speaker. Ho maintained that armed men at the polls should be withdrawn, now and forever. George Washington Murray, the colored Republican from South Carolina, was tho last speaker of the day. He read his speech and was given more than the usual attention. “If 1 owe allegiance to this government,” he said, “then the government which squeezes my life Hood out in taxes owes protection to me. Tho guardian of State sovereignty is again hovering about tho dome of the Capitol. I submit that men armed with rifles and shotguns, who stand at tho ballot box to murder or {terrorize ns, to prevent us. from voting, are as much the armed enemies of tho United States as an invading army.”

Thursday’s session in tho Senate was spent behind closed doors in executive session, A large number of Presidential nominations were confirmed by a close vote. In tho House, Thursday, the election bill debate was continued but the interest flagged. In the Senate.Friday, Mr. Illaokburn of Kentucky submitted an amendment to the hill repealing the sllvcrpurchasing clauses of the act of 1800. It strikes out the Voorhccs substitute, leaving tho bill as it passed the House, and then provides for the free coinage of silver of American production. The Secretary of the Treas-

nry Is authorized on the first day of each month to establish the seigniorage to bo charged (ortho following month, which Is to be the difference between the market price of silver bullion and the minted value after coinage. This seigniorage is not to be coined, but is to bo sold by the Secretary of the Treasury for gold, to bo used for the purpose of maintaining the parity between gold and silver. This is the amendment which Mr. Blackburn in his recent speech said ho would propose with a view of reaching a compromise. The debate on the repeal bill was continued by Senator Call of Florida and Senator Butler of South Carolina, both of whom oppose the bill. Mr. Gorman presented a memorial signed, he said, by the leading merchants of Baltimore, representing, he supposed, twothirds of the trade and commerce of that city, praying for speedy action on the repeal bill. Mr. Teller took the floor on the repeal bill at 4:45 o’clock, but before he began Mr. Dubois suggested the lack of a quorum. After some little delay a quorum was secured. ‘T will siy,” said Mr. Teller, “that so far as I am concerned I am satisfied that excitement and distrust was created to a large extent by the attitude of the executive department of this government on the financial question.” At 5:15 Mr. Faulkner, understanding that Mr. Teller was feeling well, moved an executive session. Without concludlug his speech Mr. Teller yielded for this purpose. The Senate after a short executive session then adjourned. Seven hours of uninterrupted debate on the elections bill occupied the time of the House, Friday, the speech of Mr. Cummings, of New York, being the feature. As but three days remain for debate, the House met Friday morning at 11 o’clock. Night sessions will also bo ordered so that nlldesiring to speak shall have an opportunity. In the Senate, Saturday, Mr. Voorhees announced that ho would move for a continuous session on Wednesday until a vote is reached on the repeal bill. There are differences of opinion as to what the result will bo. Genera! Hawley has been quoted as saying that the outcome must be a compromise or an adjournment of the special session. Mr. Sherman said that a vote on unconditional repeal cannot bo reached. Many of the friends of repeal are now very doubtful of the movement of which Mr. Voorhees has given notice. Democratic managers intimate that the purpose of it is to show the President that a vote cannot be reached in that way and a compromise must be the final result. The physical contest is dreaded by many of the advocates of repeal, especially by the older men. To many of them such a contest is a legitimate cause for apprehension. The repealers have prepared for the contest with the formality of military discipline. It will bo the duty of Mr. Dubois to keep an eye upon the seats around him, and as soon as it becomes apparent that forty-three Senators are not in their seats to demand the presence of a quorumIn the House, Saturday, the debate on the election bill was continued. Dr. Everett, of Massachusetts, spoke in favor of repeal. Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, said it was an insolent assumption of the Democrats that the Republican party was interfering with their domestic affairs. Wo have the same right to require honest elections in the South as if the trespassing wore within the limits of our own State. These decried statutes do not interfere with State elections, but only require that there shall be proper scrutiny and peace at the polls, so that every man shall have the right to vote as he pleases at Federal elections. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, spoke against repeal of the election law and defended the right of colored men to vote as they pleased at Federal elections. WANTS TO COMPROMISE. “Governor O AIalley” on His Knees to the State Authorities. A report was current. Saturday, that President O’Malley, of the Columbian Athletic Association at Roby, had made a proposition to compromise to the State authorities in which he agreed to dispose of his property at Roby and abandon the State with his prize-fighting enterprise if the indictments against him and those who had given the “exhibitions of science and skill” were dismissed and the bondsmen released. Ho says that such a stop would , entail a loss of from $20,(0) to $30,000, as he could not hope to realize on a sale of the property one-half what it cost him. The Governor.it is said, is opposed to any compromise of the cases, saying that he gave O’Malley fair warning before the club was opened that prize-fighting would not be permitted, and ho does not think that the club management Is entitled to any sympathy. He believes that all will he convicted, and that the example thus set will be more salutary than any compromise that could be effected, and would be more likely to deter others from such enterprises in the future. Several letters passed between the Governor and .1 udgo Gillette, of the Lake Circuit Court, last week, and it is said that O’Malley’s proposal was discussed in the correspondence. Judge Gillette, like the Governor, has no doubt of the convinction of all the indicted parties.

HER TWENTY-NINTH BOY. NIrs.Bennett Doing What She Can to Reduce the Democratic Majorty. Mrs. Samuel Bennett, of Tanner, Gilmer county, W. Va., gave birth to her twenty-ninth boy a few days ago. Mrs. Bennett is only forty-six years old. Her husband is fifty-three. The twenty-nine boys are all alive and hearty. This is the largest crop of children in any one county in this State. “Unfortunately,” said a wcll-knoown Gilmer Democrat, “the Bennetts are all Republicans, and if this sort of thing continues our majority will bo in danger.”