Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 29, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 January 1887 — Page 7

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th Ut'piKlfiK of the tuairea aboard before we ha left K.:Mttg hy fifty Wihw. The JimnoUt had giren Um on. giNeer troubU, and the aarwanl had a certain tart of lwpdttw in Ma ebtdienee to cumtuaada. I did not know nnOl now that a gang of twenty or more of the feOowa at Ke-Lwtg had attempted te hodure thacautaia to give them pasiiage to tho island of Taeeeaan, wkkli we taeant to visit. They bad offered big paaaage money and were willing to put up with any aceommodathitw, but he miatruated iheta, and firmly declined to hare owe of them aboard. The wtewanl and firemen were soundly berated bjr the captain and threatened with irons if any more trouble occurred, and there the matter waa dropped. At the cloae of the second day we dropped anchor off a siuall island to the southwest of Tseeuaau called Kung-Wah. There waa no harbor, but the depth of the water Qnabkd us to get with! a a cable' length of the beach ia a comparatively sheltered spot. Captain Tabor had traded at this island a year before, and he knew that the natirea were all right as long a they were kept in awe by a superior force. There was a trader on the island who had a large stock of roof, and after a palaver lasting two days and night, the aercargo finally made a bargain with him. It waa observed by the cataiH thatome change had come over the natirea, for on his xrevious trip they had leen eager to close a bargain at any figure named. The natirea in our crew had been permitted to go Manor, and a dosen or so of the leading men of the inland had come aboard ami inspected us. It waa night of the second day before a trade waa agreed upon. On the following day we were to begin landing ami receiving goods. There was a Wg crowd of native on shore opposite the steamer, and they had canoe, catamarans and dhows enough to have embarked three hundred people. Just before night in we sighted a large junk coming down from the direction of Formosa, but gave her no jtarticular attention. At about nine o'clock she came jogging along at a tramp's gait and droped Iter mud hook within two hundred feet of us. I gave her a looking over with the night-glass, ami a only five or six men could be made out on her decks it w natural to eonelmle that she waa a trader.

lieing in port, with fair weather for the night, the crew might ext.ttrt that only an anchor watch would be maintained. The men must therefore have been onewbat surprised when Cajtain Tabor invited our five natives to goaahore, and spend the night with their friend?, ami announced to the rest of ti that we should ?taml watch and watch. The cook wm the only native who did not go. He declared that he had enemies ashore who would kill, him, ami he waa therefore allowed to occunv his accustomed quarters. There were ten of its iteeides him, and soon after the junk anchored, the gnna were cast loose ami loaded with grape. the firearm brought un and made ready, and the engineer was instructed to keep steam enough to permit us to move. The cable waa arranged for jdiiininsr, and then five nien turned in "all standing" ami the other fire of u stood watch. Before this occurred the caain said to me: " Mr. Graham, this may be going to a good deal of trouble for nothing, but the man who deals wKh these natives has got to J m prepared for any emergency. If they trouble ns it will not be until after mhlnight. I will therefore head the second watch. Keep your eye on that junk, and pemtit no boat to come aljoard under any circumstances. I distributed mv men over the vesirel to the best advantage, and reserved to myself the right to act a a free lance. That is, I went from one tart of the vessel to another, ami kept one eye on the junk ami the other on the) beach. All was very quiet np to 11 JO o'clock, when I made two discoveries in qatck succcrtwm. The cook had red M large dish of coffee for our use during the night. We had a large urn on a stand in one corner of the dining-room, ami a lamp underneath kept the conee hot. The same thing is in general use in American hotels ami rcstrauranta. I was on the point of entering the cabin to secure a drink of the leverage when, as I had jmised an open window. I heard the cover of the urn rattle, and then caught the footsteps of some one in retreat. It could be none other than the native cook, I argued, Imt I did not go to hi quarters to verify or disprove my suspicions. I entered the cabin, turned up the light, ami carefully examined the um. The rascal had certainly "dosed" it. There waa a grayish powder on the cover and on the edge of the urn, and in his haste he had spilled some on the floor. A look inside showed numerous llddes on the surface of the liquid, but these broke ami disappeared while I was looking. The rascal could hare but one object in his actions. I arranged the. can so that no one eoukl trernre a drink, ami then started to notify the captain. Aa I mssed along the deck I looked for the junk, and in an instant aaw that she had decreased the distance between us. The tide waa setting in and she was either dragging her anchor or had jmrposely raised it ami allowed herself le drift. The captain was up as soon aa I touched his arm, and when I report! my suspicions of the cook and the jank he replied: "Call all the men at once, but make no noise. That junk has get fifty wen ia her hold, and the tutUvss on shore are in with a plot to capturs as. Take a pair of hnadeuofe and hare the cook aewred in hie berth." Alio' 1 had --M--1 tko I wool ta

Make a priamaer ff the cuofc, but be was nowhere to be fkuad. Hi object in mmaining aboard up lo that hmr was to drag our eufito axd note what rlMU-atinns we were makiKg. When got ready to go he probably swans to the shore with hk news, but he couid have reported little more than the fact that he had drugged our eofibe, which all who were awake at midnight would probably make use of. When the men had received their orders we paid our attention to the junk, and one of the guns waa quietly rolled across the deck and trained upon her. When the night ; glass was directed to the shore we could make out that many of the natives were moving about and evidently getting ready for some expedition. There was no question now but What we were to be attacked. We had a good pressure of steam, plenty of hot water, and the hose waa attached ami a man assigned to take charge of H. It was an hour and a half after midnight before there was any deckled more on the part of the enemy. The captain of the junk could not have had a night glass, and perhaps he reasoned that we were as badly off. He kept paying out his cable foot by foot until he was so close on us that I could hare tossed a biscuit aboard of him. Owing to the set of the tide or to some crosscurrent, he dropped down to us stem first, whim we lay broadshle to the beach. The stern of the junk was pointed amidships of the steamer, ami our gun would rake his whole deck at every discharge. At one o'clock two men left her in a small boat and went ashore, ami then forty or fifty armed men came out of the bold and took their stations on deck. A few had muskets, but most of them carried knives ami a sort of hand granade. These bombs are filled with a villainous compound which i let loose as they are broken, and the fumes are more to be dreaded than a bullet. Their plan, as we solved it, was for an attack on both shies of us at once. A fleet would come out on us from the shore ami the junk would drift down upon as at the same time. We had the cable ready to slip, sent the engineerto his oet ami then waited. At about half-past while the tide had yet half, an hour to run, we saw the shore boats make ready. At least SOO natives were ready to come off. They knew that the cook had drugged or poisoned our coffee, and therefore sent a boat in advance of the fteet to see in what shape we were. The boat came up very softly ami rowed twice around us before the captain hailed and let them know we were wideawake. Some sort of signal was given from the boat, and the fight opened at once. Just the moment we saw the people on the junk getting ready to drift her down upon us we gave them the grape from the six-pounder. They were not pistol-shot away, with most of the men crowded

aft, and I verily believe that the one discharffe killed or wounded twentv men. 1 was at that gun with two oth ere, ami a man armed with a carbine was near us. He fired six or seven shots while we were reloading, and three or four musket-shots were fired at ns. Our second shot drove all who were left, alive below hatches, and, be lieving that the carbineer could keep them there, we ran the gun to the starboard side to heat off" the boats. It was high time. While the first discharge of the gaa had done for a score of them, they were a reckless and desperate lot and would not retreat. They were provided with bombs, spears, blow guns and muskets, and the man who was to sprinkle them with hot water had been shot dead at their first fire. As soon as we got our gun over, some one picked up the noaale of the hose pipe and turned it loose on every boat within reach. But for the hot water the fellows might have carried us by boarding.for 900 to 10 is big odds. Such screaming ami shouting and shrieking as they indulged in when the boiling hot water spattered over their half-naked bodies was pamlemoninm of iteelf, ami all the time we kept playing on them with guns ami the carbines. The fight could not have lasted over i-even or eight minutes, ami as soon as they began to draw off I ran my gun to the port side, loaded with shell, ami sent the missile right through the junk's stem. Half a doaen fellows rnhed out of the hold and jumped overboard, ami I gave her two more. When the third was fired there was an explosion, probably of a barrel of powder, which lifted her decks thirty feet high ami split her wide open. She sank right there before our eyes, ami the wails id the wounded wretches who floated about for a minute or two were dreadful to hear. Captain Tabor felt that such treachery as the natives had shown deserved the severest punishment, and we t it r net I both guns loose on the village, ami fired forty or fifty ."bells. When daylight came not a human being was in sight. Portions of the junk had Wit driven on the lieaeh, and the natives had tied ami left every thing lmhiml them. The sharks were proliably att meted to the spot by the sounds of firing, and they certainly had a rich feast. I never saw them so thick before nor since, and, as they fished up the bodies from the bottom around ns, three or four would seise and tug at a single one and quickly tear it to pieces. I was sent ashore with a nag of truce, with four armed meat to make it respected, ami on the sends I found the hoily of of our cook. Alter some hard work I induced the head man to come in nut of the forest and talk to me. His name waa Wang-Hang, and laid it all to the people o the jank. The natives am sag em crew had eeusesred wRh Use fsSutrs at Ke-Luug to

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nower u. Whan this stum k not he worked, owing to k.'e refusal of tmr captain to taste them, rbev followed on after us in the junk, and found a tfceerfttt eo-ooerator in old Wang-Hang, the trader. He do med taking any part in the affair perlo dissuade his people from mnklHg the attack. Hht loss, according to his own figure, was sixty odd killed, w hile 1 ever)' one else waa wounded or Five men got ashore from the junk, which bad nearly fifty men aboard of her. We were in a situation to take every dollar's worth of jroods the old rascal had in his store-houses, but Captain Tabor had no intention of blasting hht prestige in that fash ion. We held the trader to the contract already made, and landed our roods and put his aboard. He had been soundly thrashed, and like plenty of other men under the same ctreumstances, he refiectou tne thrashers. He supplied us with the best of protisioas. detailed natives to do all our work, ami when we were really to leave lie titplied us with Jive natives, ami gave Captain Tabor full power to decapitate them at the first signs of disobedience. Inring the next three years, or until I severed my connection with the steamer, we got around to the island about once in six months, and old Wung-Hang always had a good hit of cargo ready for us, ami would deal with no one else. -V. Y. Sum, ROBERT COLLEGE. Why Mm Houmriao Grodooto Are Mateo by too t.rwk JtrintjwHtM. Much is said about the interest Of England, Austria ami Italy, and even Germany, in the efforts of the Bulgarians after independence, ami the mantfestatioa of that interest in more or lest IHvnounced expressions of sym)athi ami approval. But the matter is seldom presented as having special interest for Americans. We j km n ted out some weeks ago that as a number of the most influential young men in Bulgaria had been educated in Koliert College, Constantinople, by American missionaries, the present movement must lie looked upon r.s the working out of American ideas of

liberty in that far-distant land, and err- mounted on ebony sticks, the leaf and tainly America has no reason to lie stick being alike set thickly with ashamed of her offspring. Never wn.- ' spaages of gold and silver, or of blue the cause of human freedom upheld metal or of red. The red spangles prowith more dignity ami moderation, and ' duee a peculiarly brilliant effect. For .ebJom with more steadfast devotion, j evening wear, white crape with ivory The lovaltv to their country's cause of J sticks spangled with gold or silver are

the Bulgarian jiatriots has not yet lieeti tried so severciy as that of other atnots in other ages, but so far as can be judged from their mst conduct ami present at tit isle there seems no reason to doubt that while they will not, it they can help it, plunge their country into a bloody and hopeless war, they will do ami dare any thing that may offer a reasonable hope of success. "A Russian," writing to the Iml senoVn, gives some very interesting information with regard to the influence of Robert College on Bulgaria. Ho quotes from the Constantinople correepoudent of the Xovot Irrmye, a leading Russian newspaper, who tries to blacken the fair fame of Robert College by pretending that it is a mere tool of English politicians. The correspondent says that over six hundred Bulgarians have been educated in Robert College, and that a number of these now occupy prominent jiositions in their native land ; for instance, Demitroff. Prefect of Philippojtolin ; Grekoff, ex-Minister, and Gneschott', who. according to him, is the English candidate for the throne. He further says that these men are Protestants, ami that it is the Protestant element in Bulgaria which will give Russia the most trouble. "A Russian" also quotes from an Interview with the Exarch (head of the Greek Church in Bulgaria), by a correspondent of the Nome 'reiya. The Exarch complains bitterly that since the partial emaMciimtion of Bulgaria the salaries of Metropolitans hail been reduced from 12,000 or lo,000 francs to 6,000 francs, also that even the clergymen are placed under the control of "this horrible constitution,' ami he expresses the earnest desire that "Russia should take us at once under her powerful protection," concluding with the demand that the clergy be supported, theological seminaries opened, ami "above all" that the jiress be bridled. It is evident from the almve that religions as well as civil liberty is at stake in the struggle now going on. The Russian Government is the most despotic in the world in religious as al 1 max it sWtl mm txktsz ma A Kim. . sinn" remarks : "It is easy to foresee - u-, .,ui i i. : Bulgaria in case the Russian Government should triumph in that country." Xo nobler monument to American liherty could be imagined than the freedom of a noble people secured chiefly through the agency of men who have sat at the feet of American teacher ami learned frwu them the, true principles of liberty. Ar. Y. WUm$. m m m St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, has formed an organisation known as the Mhtpah Circle, to promote the spiritual and social improvement of the blind. The $"HkWn was original with Miss Jennie E. Moore and has met with great sFmrlNJIINSo jHhwnjaAiv ataa 'FiIUaa, te Even earthquakes hare their Since the shake-up ia South CaroUaa 1,000 persona have been united with the Presbyterian Church, and many times that ntsmbatr with the Baptista HothiiiWala If O Fin

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Xweloth bonuuts in black and eolare showa by the milliners. They art ha mtow shapes, decorated with jet a." baH around the rims and sufficiently trimmed with afffht ribbon bows. Hats are leas kWi with trimming than last season, Fs.'t hats are much worn, and one to metci the color of each costume must be haol. Feathers, grant tufts of them, aroopit?jr toward the left side, a long one trailing' toward the back are the favorite trimuilug. The birds fashion abU noon these hats , are sea swallows. " There are three leading things in children's millinery: "Young England's Roll Backs," which are hats with wide brims and low crowns, intended for baby hoys, the front brim turning off from the face like the hats worn by the three gendarmes when they mmg their famous song ia "Genevieve de Brabant." The baby boys wear a eloae cap of laea and ribbon loops under the brim. The other two are " comforts," a name applied to oosy bonnets, made mostly of ruby velvet, with a plaited crown and the front edged with chinchilla and last Turk's caps, which are round, with a pointed bag end at the side, ending ia a tassel. These are superseding sailor hats of all kinds aa far as children are concerned. With the cold weather the demand for woolen hosiery increases. Rich, dark colors will be preferred. Among new styles are fleecy stockings. They have the nape on the outside, which gives softness and color, and a wooly surface, though they are of eotton, and their consequent low price is in their favor. Fedora, Mechlin and Oriental laces are the most popular laces used. French thread sad ChantUly lace will supersede Spanish fur-trimming and general use. White and colored crepe Usee, exquisitely embroidered with daisies and other flowers, will be used at the wrist and throat of handsome dresses. The canvas ruohings are not so much used as in the early part of the season, CTlte newest fans are of moderate dimensions and are of black gauze, shown, anu aisoiansoi pale pink or lilac feathers, with the mounting, in bone stained to match precisely the hue of the feathers. Even silk wraps are now made impervious to rain; so are woolens of various grades used for cloaking. The long, loose cloak of this style hi very lasntonaoie, and tne same shape may be made of corded, lined with plush or a iimel, and many- line with canton flannel, with silk over this ox some bright tint, giving a much neater effect. The curved upper edge is gathered the stae of the neck and finished into a velvet band two and three-quarter inches broad, while the hack is laid ia two plaits on each side, with a belt underneath, drawing the mantle in at the waist. Red remains in favor and is shown in a variety of shades, terra-cot ta, brick, poppy, ruby, cherry and cardinal being a few of the darker shades. Rosepink, salmon, shrimp and coral are evening shades. Strawberry and raspberry are again seen, but the most popular of all colors is the new tint called heliotrope, a dull, soft purple that is much used for bonnets and is very becoming to nearly all tints of com pi exion. The hair is to be worn lower by young women. The back-hair will be laid in braided coils at the back of the head for street wear, with a Russian bang; in the evening it is still more popular to heap the hair in soft folds on top of the head, with the bang slightly curled. A very new fashion is two light French twists turning towards each other and meeting all the way up the Imck of the bead, with the ends lightly crimped and folded, held in place by big tortoise-shell pins. N. T. m o m ALFRED'S ESCAPADE. Sow She Bake of Kmaborftti Weat on a Soreo aad Woo footohod for It. An English naval officer, at present in this city, gave your correspondent an interesting little story. Prince Alfred in IMS was a midshipman on the St. George, to which vessel my informant was assigned at the time it was in the Baltic Sea. The vouar Prince had two existences. While he waa ,Kmrtl wouW V trftf ,n lmt, I same manner ae the other fellows of the his mess, and pranks were played upon hint as frequently as upon the rest. But whenever he went, ashore he was a Prince of England, ami went in state, always accompanied by Major Cowell, now Sir John Cowell, who was his governor. One of the sublieutenants would be obliged to steer the barge for his Royal Highness, holding his hat in ma hand meanwhile. "The very klea of a Lieutenant steering the boat for a young mMsnipman like you," said a chaffing officer to the Prince one day as they rowed to shore. Til make you pay for this when you get aboard again." "Really I can't help it; it's not my fault," the lad replied, laughing. was lying off Reval, m Use Gulf of Finland, one day, and all banda had been ashore playing cricket. Prince Alfred ami hut ehum, Tom Larkin, who behmged to a yaeht in the harbor aotaraainaol ta m aohare aenin that Bight Ss after trery body

asleep the Prince stole from his

and dropped over the side of the vessel into a fisherman's boat alongside ami made for the yacht. There Larkba joined him, and they set off for a spree and they had it. Meantime Major Cowell was informed of the disappear ance of the Prince, and there waa a tremendous dirturbeaee on beard. Every nook and corner of the vessel waa searched, and two boats war seat out to dredge th bottom of thegasf ha Um fear that th Prine had overboard. Other boats war ashore and the town was searched, without Beam, however. Th Priae taught sight of Major Cowell and ram and hid himself under an upturaed boat and covered himself with some old sacks lying araund. The aarohiag party returned to the vessel, and wall a consultation was beittg aeM a to what to do next th Prine returned to th vessel, climbed np the ebaiae ami waa soon in his bertk. Here he waa found shortly after, and Edgerton immediately sent for i " Where you have been, sir?" he de manded, angrily. " I've been ia my baiumoek," th Prince replied, very innocently. "1 desire no prevarication, airf" stormed th commandant. "Have you been ashore to-nigh(?" "Yes, I have," Alfred Gmdph an swered. " Who was with you?" " That I postively refuse to toll." It was found out, though, later, awl poor Tom Jjarxin waa absolutely iorbiddn the privilege of being pros aa tad at court. This was not a great privation to him, as he died shortly after ward. Young Alfred was punished by having hie stripes removed, being re duced to the rank of a naval cadet, and made to do double duty for a month. He waa to have been at Carlsrube three months later to stand as godfather to the child of one of his sisters, but Qasen Victoria, who was muck displeased with his escapade, refused to allow him even to be present Watmngie Gsr. N. T. Star. m m SUBDUED THE MOB. Mow atoohoa A. Pooojoo Saved Mm Ufa mt w w 1 1 U He who is what Homer calls a "master of men," has "the will to do, the soul to dare." His mastership shows itself In an emergency by immediate ' action. In a crisis, lie takes the responsibility and. turns the scale. A scene in the judicial career of the lata Stephen A. Douglas illustrates this sort of mastership. When he waa but twenty-eight years of age, he waa elected one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Illinois. The circuit to which he was assigned included the Mormon settlements, and the constant conflict between the "Saints" and the "Gentiles" often made hi oourt-house a battle-field. It happened that the Mormon leader, Joseph Smith, was put on trial foe some criminal offense before Judge Douglas. The people flocked to the court-house, anxious to see Smith con victed and punished, because they thought him responsible for aU the crimes charged against the Mormon. When it waa whispered that the evidence would not secure a conviction, it waa proposed that the citiaens should enter the court-house, seise Smith and hang him. A gallows was hastily built in the court-house yard, and a boisterous mob rushed into the court-room where the prisoner was about to be tried. " Sheriff," called out Judge Douglas, as th mb crowded toward th phwe where Smith sat, "dear the room! Th proceedings of th court ar interrupted." " Gentlemen, you mast keep order! You had better retire," said th sheriff. a small, weak man, trying to carry out the court's order. " Judge," said he, as the mob, instead of retiring, kept crowding towards the prisoner, " they won't go out, and I can't make them." Several of the ringleaders, stimulated by the sheriff's confession, jumped over the bar and started to seise Smith. They were arrested by Judge Douglas rising and calling out to a large Kentuckian, who stood six feet and a half. " I appoint you sheriff of this court, as many deputies as you require. Clear the oourt-house. The law demands it, and I, a Judge of this court, command you to enforce the law and preserve the peace." The suddenly-appointed sheriff obeyed the Judge's orders. Hastily calling upon half a doaen men to serve a deputies, he knocked down three ringleaders; hie deputies pitched six more out of the windows, and in a few minutes the court-room was cleared of th mob, who, seeing th fate of their Waders, scampered out of the door. Judge Douglas' prompt action prevented a murder and secured a fair trial to the prisoner. But he had assumed an authority which did not belong to him. As the duly-appointed sheriff was present, he had no legal right to appoint any one to act as sheriff. He knew that before he spoke, but a moment's delay would have sealed Smith's fat. S took th responsibility, and emerrency m tJw4n SomaBSr-rBmVNs which prevented a murder. Tama's Th diamond situation InKautueky seems to be about this: That the geological situetio is exactly right far diamonds, but that the diamond bar neglected their opportunity and are net vflmiyu, rrraimmmojajmj wrmFpsm' Mrs. Leagtry'is said to"b wrmng naval iWiannr with Matteh Ufa in Ha www wa warweeTreem , ana onmnem erwwm' n fBSBBBa. SmVrml dBhflBBmv BBJ