Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 March 1899 — Page 3

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RODNEY:

Or, The Adventures of An Eton 5oy... BY J AAA EES GRANT. (

CIl A PT Eli V. ( ( 'on t inued. "In a mcnicnt his blue shirt was off and p'atod cn the lift of tht foivyard. This nuant. Mr. Rodney, that as merchant seamen we appealed to the man o'-war f';r protection, and wanod an ! armed heat's crew. Thank heaven, such an apppeal is never made in vain j by a poor Jack of any country to a i Eritish man-o'-war. hut the lubberly ! Spaniards never noticed the signal, or ; If so. never heeded it." j '"The Yankee skipper uttered a fierce laugh. " "I5e':se that shirt and come down, you sir.' he thundered cut: 'down instantly, or I will shoot you like a toon." "But. desperate with fear, the poor ; IrilOV now stood upon the vard. and I

while one hand grasped the topping i h morrow I'll overhaul yon, in the Jiff, with the other he waved his shirt; forenoon watch. Till then, good-by:' to the Spaniards. I heard the crack ; and before I could say anything more of a pistol, and next moment he foil u!d Jack was gone, and 1 found mya quivering mass unon the leck, ston? j self alone on the stone mole, with the dead, shot by the rcvoher. hoy of the polacca's companion in my "T! at will teach you to make r.i'- i hard. r.als f-o rn my hip. you varmint, sr.i- ' "Ther seemed nothin; fcr me but veiled ti-o merciless skipper, giving the j to accept the temporary home thus of-

nouy a tinuf d. 'ard as for you.' he con- i addressing me, and ramming : home his werds with an oath: but before he could get further I leveled him on the deck by a blow from a handtpike. ar.d tossed his knife and revolver overioard. "His risht arm was broken. There was a great row about all this before the Alcalde when we got into harbor; our lei was unshipped and our canvas ::iibrnt by a party 0f Spanish marines: I,ut the captain crossed the Alcalde's hand with silver or sold, and there was an end of it. There was an end of my engagpment. too: for tho Yankee weathered me about my salary, r-pfzed my rhest, my quadrant, even an old silver watch which my mother gave me to make me eomfortnl.'e first went to sea, and then turned me ! out of the ship. "?o with nothing except a Mexican dollar in my pocket, but followed by my Newfoundland dog Hector. I found myseif cn a wet and dusty evening on the great quay of Matanzas v.hirh faces the bay that opens into the Gulf of Florida. "Low alike in spirits and funds. I had to endure being jostled by negro j porters, scowled at by alsuasils, or- j dcrcd about bv red-eannnel nn.i i,i-w.t. bearded Spanish sentries, - i l i - ii i uiutiv i who w-r shirtless and tattered, and whose brown uniforms and red worsted, epaulettes tainted the very sea breeze with the cdor of garlic and coarse tobacco. "The- run ha 1 set behind clouds as red as b!o-d. i he bay was all of a den brown tint, and the shores were black ! or purpie. I was very sad at heart. ' and thought it hard that I, a British 1 seaman, should be there an outcast, j and all my kit reduced to the clothes on my back, in the very place where the ! same flag that Pococke and Albemarle hoistvd on Havana, and brought all the Den Spaniards on their knees in old King George's time. "However, that would neither find me supper or a bed. I lost or missed ! my Newfoundland dog Hector, and inj the bitterness of my heart I banned the! poor animal for ingratitude in leaving me. .lust as I was looking about for a hunhle posada, where a moiety of my dollar might procure me a bed. a man stumbled against me. ' 'Look alive, cucumber .shanks.' said he. angrily, in English. " 'Do you take me for a negro?' I asked, fiercely. "'You are grimy enough fcr anything.' said he; and after being a night in the Alcalde's lockup house, I certainly was not the des

i 'Tis I, Jack Hislop. certainly.' re- ' plid the other, who proved to be my old friend, Marc's father; 'bat who the deuce are you?' "'Your old shipmate, Sam Weston, who sallied with you for many a day in the Good Intent of Tort Glasgow.' "For a moment his tongue seemed absent without leave." " 'What, you Ham Weston Knclhh ! Sam. as we called you--adrift here at' Maianzas among these punish land- j V. A CA KJ 3 "'Aye. adrift sure enough.' said I, ts we shook hands heartily, ami then adjourned to a taherna, when I told hlrn all about my quarrel with the Yankee and my present hopeless condition, over a glass of nor'-nor'-west. "'I have a bri here on the gridiron, repairing, for we lost some of her copper in scraping a rock near the Tortugas shoal. All my crew are of course ashore, and at present I am residing with a friend,' said Hdop; 'but I can find permanent quarters for you till you get a berth. Do you see that craft out there in the bay?' " 'The polacca brig, about a mile off?' " 'Yes. Well, she Is consigned to my owner, but was found adrift, abandoned by all her crew except two, about fifty miles off, half way between this and the Salt Key Hank. I have charge of her now, and there you may sleep every night if you choose. What say 0U to that?' " 'That I thank you, old shipmate, with all my heart, but but 'What?' ' 'I have heard of that polacca, and

but now It secned aa if the voice of ! after casting some .strange kaleidothe Mranger was familiar to me. I ex- 1 scopic figures on the beams overhead, timir.cd his features. through the perforated lantern-top "'What,' I exclaimed. 'Htsdop Jack i went out! Hislop. is this you?' "1 was in total darkness now, but

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Hi Ml I 0 tii Ml ii Ml til that two of ner crew who remained on hoard ' 'Were dead: yes. tr::e pr.nv.Rh. They wer found in thrir berths, one on the starboard, and the other on the port side of tho cabin. lint what of that? I buried them off the point of Santa Cruz, an.l there they sleep sound enough, helieve ivn. each with a couple of cold shot at hi? heels. Here is the Key of the companion hatch, and tako my revolver with vom. for picaros are pretty common hei eab )i s.' "'Thanks, h'islop," --ah. I; 'hut how am I to set on hoar!?' "'Scull over to her in the punt that is moored beside the quay. WlKn on j heard make yourself quite at homo, for the asent and I left plenty of gros, beef. biscuits and tobacco in ike cabin. On feivd: so. in the hope that it might lead to something better, 1 stepped into the light punt, cast loose the painter, and after a few minutes' vigorous sculling found myself on the lonely deck of the client polacca. "Her canvass was unbent; most of the running rigging had also been taken off her and stowed away so her tall and taper spars stood nakedly up from the straight flush deck, with a sharp rake aft. "Thick banks of dark-blue clouds were coming heavily up from the Gulf of Florida. The air was hot and sulphurous: some drops of rain, warm and broad as doubloons, began to splash upon the deck and to make circles on the sea; while at the far edge of the horizon a narrow streak of bright moonlight, against which the wrves were seen chasing "ach other, glittered through the Hying send, the bottom of which was uplifted in tho oftlng. like a dark curtain that was battered and rent. "Then a Hash of red lightning, tipping the waves with lir be replaced by instant d e. shone, but to placed by instant darkness, and all became black chaos to seaward, save where a pale-green beacon burned steadily at Santa Cruz, on the western side of the bav. - "These signs prognosticated a rough night, but I was glad to perceive that the po!acea was well moored at stem and sum; so I unlocked the companion door and descended, not without a shudder, into tee dark and cold cabin, where the dead 'men had been found. and where all was silence and gloom, "I struck a lucifer match; my teeth chattered; and while groping about for a candle, to make myself comfortable for the night. I began to wish I had remained on shore. "I found a ship-lantern with the fagend of a candle in it. and this, when lighted, enabled me to take a survey of the cabin; which stood on the table and when looking about, found my eyes wander so incessantly to the side berths in which the dead Spaniards had been found, that at last I almost fancied their pale sharp profiles and rigid figures were visible in the flickering light of the candle. " Come.' said I, Sam Weston this will never do! Are you a man, or have you become a child again?" "Another application a long one, too to the rum jar, and I wrapped some bunting, a rug, and a pea-jacket that lay cn the locker, round me. and lay down on the cabin floor to slep; and scarcely had I stretched myself there when the candle flared tip, and, raore awake than ever. "I felt as if in a great floating coffin, but heard no sound except the gurgle of the sea under the counter, or the splash of the stern warp, as it whipped the water occasionally. "I kept my eyes closed resolutely, and determined, perforce, to sleep, and not to wake till morning; but still I ('oul11 not hc5P thinking of the two poor felvs who had died in the berths that cold, dark, and silent cabin, and had been loosed to and fro so Ions upon the sea before they received Christian burial. "Which had died first tho man fn the larboard, or he in the starboard berth? Why were they thus abandoned? What had they aid to each other? What messages had they sent to wife, to father, or mother? What tale of love to repeat of guilt to reveal messages given by the dead to the dead, and never delivered! These thought? crowded upon me till I almost imagined tho dead men lay there still, and that they might rise up and give their last messages to me. Then I heard a sound in the forehold. It made my blood curdle! Was it caused by rats? Perhaps they had fed on the dead Spaniards and now were come to take a nibble at me. Hats were bad enough, but ghosts were worse. I took a third and last pull at the Jamaica jar; said my prayers over again, with more than usual devotion, adding thereto the wish that I should soon have a spanking craft cf my own.

"Still the idea of the two dead men, with their pale faceo and unclosed eyes, would come before me again and again, and I could have groaned but for dread cf some similar response that might make my heart wither up and my flesh creep. And creep it soon did; for, just as this horrid idea of an overstrrined fancy, fostered by imagination and fashioned out of tho silence and darkness, became strongest within me, what were my emotions how painful the throbbing of my heart cn beholding a strange, green, ghastly light glimmering about, and playing within each of the side berths. "While shrinking into a corner of the cabin, with eyeballs straining. 1 gazed at them alternately with a species of horrid fascination. The twe lights were weird, wavering and pale; they seemed to me as two warnings from the land of spirits, for they played upon the curtain and in the recess of each berth, port and starboard in which a dead mrn had been found. And while these lights shone, there came upon my ear the palpable sound of a heavy breathing and snorting, aa from the oppressed chest cf some one, close by me. "I placed my hands upon my eyes and on my ears to shut out these horrid lights and sounds; but when I looked again the former had diseappeared. and all was opaque darkness. "On putting forth my hand to rise, a ry of uneontroFalde terror escaped me a yell that rang in wild echoes through the silent polacca when my Angers came in contact with something icy, and then a ccld, clammy, and wet head of hair! "Then two glistening eyes seemed to peer and to glare into mint-! "In horror and bewilderment, and followed by something, I knew not what, I sprang up the companion, and, half fainting, readied the deck of the polacca. Then I turned to find that the object which hail excited so much dismay was no other than my poor dog Hector, which had swam off to the brig in pursuit of me. "The eyes that in the dark seemed to glare into mine, were his; the icy object, from which ray fingers shrank, was his honest black rose; and what teemed a wet head of hair, was hi3 own curly front: while the lights the mysterious lambent lights that had llicekercd about the dead men's berths, proved to he nothing more than the green beacon on the promontory of Santa Cruz, which snone at times through the two stern windows of the polacca. "Heing moored with the chain cable ahead and a manilla warp from her port quarter to a buoy astern, she swung to and fro a little with the ebb and How of the tide: hence the oscillation which caused the moving glt-ams that terrified me. "'Ha! ha!' said I, on descending into the cabin, a wiser and a more sleepy man, 'stared by my own dog Hector! I have been as great a gull as ever touched salt water.' "A fortnight afterwards I shipped with old Jack Hislop as second mate, and the fifteenth day saw us running before a smart topgallant breeze into the Gulf of Florida, bound with a cargo of rum, sugar and molasses fcr tho Clyde. "So that is my ghost yarn. It conveys a moral, does it not? Order them to strike the bell forward. Hislop, call the watch; see how her head hears, and let us turn in." (To bo continued.)

HE EARNED HIS MEDAL. Heroic Act of a Stoker on a ISrltlsh War hip. Towards the end of the year 1S97 the British torpedo-boat Thrasher, with its mates Lynx and Sunfish, left St. Ives on a passage to Falmouth. On the way the Thrasher grounded on a point, causing serious injury to the boilers and the bursting of the main feed-pipe. The burst pipe instantly filled the stokehold with scalding steam. In it were two stokers, Edward Lynch and James Paul. All tho rest of the boat's company were landed on the rocks, but the doubling up of the deck had prevented the egres3 of the stokers bj the starboard hatchway. There was still a port hatchway, which was partially closed, and towards this the two men made their way, Lynch in the lead. Directly under the hatchway and discharging through it, was the break in the steampipe. Lynch rush through it safety, and turned to help his mate Paul. Hut an instant convinced him thui Paul was unable to follow. Then Lynch lay down on the deck with his head and face in the escaping steam, seized hold of the sinking Paul, and by a remarkable exercise of force and tenacity drew him up on the deck. Lynch then rose to his feet, but it vas observed that he was badly scalded about the head, arms and upper part of the body. The surgeon began to apply oil and wool to his burns, but he repelled the attention. "I'm all right," he exclaimed; "look after my chum! He's very bad!" He had said nothing afco'it the way he had rescued Paul, but his manly conduct led tha surgeon to investigate, and it was ascertained that, In order to rescue hia comrade, he had plunged the whole upper part of his body into what waa practically a boiling cauldron. Mora than this, it appeared that Lynch had previously sacrificed his own chance of escaping from the stokehold tha other way ia order to stay with Paul. In recognition of this act of selfsacriflce and bravery. Lynch was presented with the Albert Medal of tha first class, which is given primarily for gallantry in saving or attempting to save life at sea, and in some caae for similar acts ashore. Falsehood la cowardice. Ballou.

One of the Fiercest Engagement of the War. DARING MOVE BY NATIVES. ! American .hie of Communication Cut Off by a Sudden Attack Kebcl Force I Itlnuitoly . Koutcd with Heavy Losa Our C;i"Multlcs Wero Light. Feb 2:1 one of the fiercest fights, for j a small one. since the war began, took J place at and around Tondo bridg?, near i Manila. A body of daring insurgents, about 230 in number, passed Gen. MeArthur's left wing aiong the swampy shore near Caloocan during the night and entered the Tondo district. Huilding five trenches across the road, they took possession of Tondo bridge, which they held until 2 o'clock. Thus they were in the outskirts of the city, and the American line of communication with the front v.-as cut. Two Minnesota companies sustained the first attack, but held on until reinforcements arrived, when the attack was repulsed in short order. The enemy's loss must have been very heavy. Our casualties were light. Mow a Ilridge Trust. Another gigantic trust, embracing over 00 per cent of the bridge manufacturing companies of the United States, is in progress of formation. The combine will represent over $00,000 of capital. FAMOUS NE WS-CAT HER Daron Paul Julius De Renter, who is critically ill in London, has done more than any other one man for the spread of general intelligence throughout the earth. He is the founder of the great Reuter agency for the sending of news by telegram, and his success has Iowa Prohibitionist to Meet. Chairman Elliott oi' the Iowa prohibition state central committee has issued a call for a state convention to ßs held at Des Moines May 23. A full state ticket will be nominated. Iarge Army I Needed. Gen. Rios. formerly Spanish military commander in tho Philippines, considers it necessary for the Americans to have 100,000 men to suppress the rebellion among the natives. Heavy Shipments f Oraiu. During the week ending Feb. 2ö 309,249 bushels of wheat. 000,973 bushels of corn and 219,707 bushels of oats were shipped from Doston. Their total value was $S,000,000. Place for Judge Day. The president sent the name of William It. Day, former secretary of state, to the senate for the judgeship of the sixth judicial circuit of the Federal court. Coonldcrs Spain Not Kesponslhle. In the Spanish chamber of deputies Senor Puigcerver, minister of finance, said he considered Spain was not responsible for the Cuban debt. One Killed. Thirteen Injured. One person was killed and thirteen others injured in a head-on collision between two Pennsylvania railroad trains at Philadelphia. Ituuior of Ameer' Death. There are persistent rumors among the natives at Peshawur, India, that the ameer of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan, is dead.

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Funeral of President Fwure. The funeral of the late President Fa ure of France was conducted with much magnificence. There were no demonstrations. No Do ml Isitue Contemplated. Secretary Gage says there is no truth whatever in the published statement that another bond issue was in contemplation. Denjamln J. Haywood Head llenjamin J. Haywood, cashier of the s; täte treasury of Pennsylvania and OJistaU treasurer, 13 dead.

NATURAL GASJEXPLODES. .even Persons Seriously Injured nt Walton, Indiana. A natural gas explosion occurred at Walton, a village in Cass county, near Logansport. Ind.. whereby seven persons were injured. They are Daniel Kckton, Mrs. Daniel Eckten, their son, Charles Eekton, aged -0; Jee C;blentz and his wife and their two daughters. Millie and Nellie, aged S and 5 years respectively.

WANTS THE OREGON. Admiral Detrey Make ix Somewhat Sensational I!eincrtt. Admiral Dewey has sent the following dispatch to the navy department: "Manila. Feb. 24. For political reasons the Oregon should be sent here at once." All sorts of rumors are a Scat as to the reason for the request. Cabinet cflk-ials say the situation is unchanged. Coal Mining in lltino!. Tlie total output of the coal mines of Illinois last year was 1S.."JI.2:X tons, while the estimated capacity of the mines with their present equipment is more than double this amount. Cleveland Wants Third Term. Grover Cleveland, it is stated on excellent authority, is to be a candidate in 1900 for a third term as president. His platform will be anti-imperialism and anti-ercnansion. Detroit Man MJected President. The Michigan State League of Republican Clubs elected W. A. Hurst of Detroit president, Grant Follows of Hudson having declined re-election. ER NEAR TO DEATH. bcn so pronounced as to draw prais from those who are highest in power in Europe. Tho fir.t telegraph line w built in Europe in 1S40. being a lines between Berlin and Aix-la-Chap-eile, and very soon afterward Renter opened an office in the last named city. I.ars;o Immigration from .Sja!ii. The immigrant authorities say that since the close of the war with Spain the immigration from that country to America has increased 100 per cent. Say Americans Suffer Heavily. An official telegram received at Madrid says the insurgents continue to attack Manila, inflicting heavy losses upon the Americans. Otis' Force I StrrnstlicneU. Gen. Otis has been re-enforced at Manila by that portion of the Twentieth infantry which was on board the transport Scandia. Indiana I'orcters Klect President. The state meeting of Indiana Furesters elected C. W. Ennis, Union City. chief ranger. The next meeting will be held at Peru. YVaitins: for Their Chanees. An unconfirmed and improbable rumor is current that the Duke of Orleans and Prince Victor Napoleon are both in Paris. China Orders Locomotives Here. Eighty-one. locomotives have been ordered by Chinese railroad projectors from the Baldwin locomotive works at Philadelphia. Tcn ilil Drought in Aunt r:ill:t. Terrible devastating drought is widespread in Australia. The ruin U appalling. Cattle are starving to death in hundreds. Rumored Defeat of Khalifa. It is reported that the khalifa has suffered a severe defeat at the hands of the Soudanese friendly to the AngloEgyptians. Senator Jones In Keroveriof;. A material improvement has taken place in the condition of Senator Jones of Arkansas and his recovery is assured. Y11I Not Increase Cavalry The budget committee of the German reichstag rejected the government's proposal to increase the cavalry. Cli oat e Sail for Kurland. Joseph 11. Choate, the new ambassador to the court of St. James, has sailed for England.

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KIL WINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A.M.; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. II. Conner, V. M. John Corbalev. Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. .cj R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. Cjilson. II. P. II. 1). Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No, zC K. T. : meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, L. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha "McDonald, W M. Mrs. Lou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lode rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schcarer, N. G. Chas. JUishman, Sec. SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. "Mrs. J. i:. Ellis, N. G. Miss Emma Xumbaugh, Y. G. Miss N. IJcrkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Win. F. Voting, C. C. Cal Switzer, K. of iL. ar.d S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters: meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No.i 199; meets the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in K. of P . hall C. M. Slayler, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. I)". W. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.: meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M. hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE No. 2S, L. O. T. M; meets cycry Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall." Mrs. W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. j. C. Jilson, Regent. B. J. Lauer, Sec. WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE PLYMOUTH GROVE, No, 6: meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. Ilammcrel, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursdays in K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. Meets every Tuesday. W. II. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tibbctts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets every first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charles Wilcox, Adj't. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every oiher week, 7.30 p.m., in Bisscll hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall. S. B. r aiming, l ies. I. A. Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month. Jacob Kaszer, M. D., President, Novitas B. Aspinall. M. D., Sec