Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 April 1899 — Page 3

DICK RODNEY;

BY JAA1ES GRAiNT.

CHAPTER XI. (Continued.) Headlong we stumbled over piles of lava; now we sank ankle deep anions the soft pumice uit.-t; anon we rolled, fell or scrambled thromh wild vines and i reapers: thpn through fields of growing maize and wheat, or plantations of coffc and apple trees; but neve:- pausing until we reached the base of the mighty Piton. where, breathless, gasping, panting and bathed in perspiration, we lay down in a little thicket of cinnamon bushes by the wayside to rest for a short space. During this flight I had never spoken, but Tom from time to time Indulged in disjointed remarks expressive of an exultation in which I could not share, being only thankful to heaven for my escape. But poor Tom had een more of a rough life, and of many a violent death, than it could possibly have been my lot to witness. "Ha, ha! you Spanish swabs! We've Klung two of your hammocks in a hot place before the time, perhaps!" said he. "What a row they make, like so many negroes clearing a cargo when we sheered off! Lucky it was that I eased off our tow lines in time! I have a good mind to put about, stand for the cave and pot another of those Spanish gorillas'." Whether he meant guerrillas I did not inquire, but was happy when we reached the harbor and I felt the cool breeze of the ocean fan my throbbing temples and my hands, which, from being so long and so tightly tied with rough cords, and having the blood afterward driven through them by rapid exertion, felt literally burning hot. All was dark and still when we ran along the stone mole of Santa Cruz. Fortunately at that late hour there was no official to question or molest us; and we could see the brig, anchored about half a mile distant, with the lantern still burning at the foremasthead. The light cn the castle had disappeared. We scon found a small punt at the landing stairs, and. taking possession of it without leave, cast loose the painter and shoved off. Silently and steadily, with all our remaining strength, we pulled for the brig, and were soon alongside. "Well, this spree is over, Master Rodney," said Tattooed Tom, wiping his brow with hid sleeve when we stood on the deck, where the wondering crew gathered around us; "but catch me having another in this deuced Tenny Reef that's all!" CHAPTER XU. The Anchor A-Peak. Alarmed by the foregoing narrative, which was fully corroborated by our excitement, by the two muskets we had brought on board as trophies, by the state of our hands and wrists, and the numerous cuts and bruises we had upon us; and fearing the consequent detention of the brig for some legal inquiry. Captain Weston prepared at once for putting to sea. I was happy when finding myself on the deck of the Eugenie, but still more supremely happy on hearing Weston's resolution to get underway, as I possessed very vague- but decidedly unpleasant ideas of Spanish justice, and had visions of alcaldes, alguazils, wheels, garrotes, and even the masked familiars of the Inquisition itself, floating before me. My heart beat responsive to the clank of the windlass pawls, as the "Eugenie was hove short on her anchor, and the hands started aloft to cast loose the topsails. Weston threw our two muskets into the sea lest their discovery on board might cause suspicion or annoyance. The morning was clear, cool and starry; as yet no vestige of dawn was visible, and all was still and quiet on shore; but I was in momentary expectation of seeing a boat dash off toward us. though thoe from whom we had escaped could have no just cause of complaint. Suddenly I heard the sound of oars, and saw a long, low boat shoot out from the obscurity of the harlor. My heart stood still for a moment as this craft was steered in nur direction, but to my infinite relief it boarded a Costa Rican that lay near us. As yet the shadows of night were on land and sea on everything save the cone of the Peak that towered above the clouds, and there shown the light of the yet unrisen sun, yellow deepening into saffron, purple, blue, and then indigo, blending with the blackness of night as the eye descended to the shore. So Weston gave the order to brace the foreyards aback and thv mainyards full; another wrench at the windlass, and the anchor was tripped. "Heave and a-wash!" cried Tom Lambourne, cheerily, giving the usual call of encouragement when the dripping anchoring is just out of the water and the stock is seen to stir the surface. The courses were let fall and the jib was hoisted; her head fell rapidly round and she paid off bravely. Then the firey cone of the Piton and the lights of Santa Cruz, which had glittered in tremulous line3 along the water on our beam, were shining upon our lee quarter. "Fill away the headyards handsomely now!' cried Weston, and just

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Or, The Adventures of An Eton Boy...

S as the first streak of day, coming on with tropical rapidity, began to iirighicn thi1 horizon and .-hed long, shiny ripples on the sea, the canvas swelled out. the reef points began to patter on the tnut bosom of every snow-white sail, and the loose rigging was blown out in graceful bends. There was a line breeze rising; the white water rippled under the forefoot of the Eugenie, and soon it boiled in foam as we sheeted home the topsails and ran along the western shore cf the mountain isle. About the same time the Costa Rican brig which was at anchor nearer the shore (a smart craft she was. straight in the bends, and all black, save a yellow streak), also got ready for sea with great expedition, and worked out of the harbor: and when the hot sun. which erewhile had lit up the vast continent of Africa to the east of us, rose from the ocean, we saw her black hull and white canvas shining in his morning ays about a mile astern. "You say. Marc, that craft is a Costa Rican?" said Weston, doubtfully. "Yes, sir," replied Hislop. "She may be; but she is also a Spanish dealer in black cattle," said Weston, who was looking at her through a powerful double-barreled glass. "I am certain if you could only ec her deck when she careens a bit. you would make out the ring-bolts for lashing the slaves to in fine weather." "Aye, and perhaps those of the carronades. too." added Ilis!op; "she looks rather rakish." ' You are just of my mind, sir," added Tom Lambourne. who was at the wheel. "She'll see the Shark's Nose and the Congo river before she sees the Mosquito creeks or the hills of Costa Rica; and I have a shrewd notion that the pirates we escaped from are part of her crew, if one may judge from what Master Rodney, who knows their lingo, overheard them say." Except across the Peak of Teneriffe. where a cloud of white vapor floated in mid-air like a permanent cymar or girdle, and above which some thousand feet of the mighty cone towered into the blue immensity of space, mellowing from green and purple to a faint gray tint, the sky was without a cloud. The waves danced and sparkled in the morning sunshine, the fresh breez? swept pleasantly over their whitening tops and whistled through our rigging, as we ran along the shore with considerable speed; and now our hearts beat lightly, for the broad, free ocean was around us, and on clearing the dangerous rocks at Punta de Anaga by giving them a wide berth, we felt the heavier swell of the Atlantic as we brought the larboard tacks on board, and ran. close-hauled, on a taut bowline between the Isles of Teneriffe and Palma, keeping the weatherage of the Costa Rican, and leaving her at the same time fast and far astern. We had a delightful run through ike fertile Archipelago of the Fortunate Isles, and, after clearing San Josef, found the wind coming more aft. Long after night had closed in and darkness had enveloped all the sea and the Isle of Teneriffe, the cone of the peak shone redly in midair, with the light of the sun that had set in the western waters of the Atlantic. For the whole of that day we had run fast through the water, making at least seven knots an hour off the logline, but midnight came before we saw the last of the mighty Peak of Adam. CHAPTER XIII. An Incident. By the time we had been a month at sea, having applied myself assiduously to work, I picked up a little knowledge of seamanship. I took my turn of watch with the rest; I learntd to go aloft and to lie upon a yard In a stiff topgallant breeze. I acquired all the mysteries of knotting and splicing, of serving a rope with spun-yarn.and to know the technical difference between the rone itself and a line. I could heave the log.box the compass and take my "trick" at the helm with the best man on board, and thus gained the golden opinions of those among whom a rough turn of the wheel of fortune had so strangely and so suddenly cast me. Some days after leaving the Canaries wo found ourselves passing through what seemed to be immense meadows of green stuff adrift. Ily moonlight the branches, leaves and fibers of this uprooted marine forest for such it was, being wrack and seaweeds of wondrous length springing from the lowest depths of the ocean sparkled, flashed and whirled In the foaming eddies astern of the brig as she cleft or brushed down the yielding masses with her rushing keel. I was never weary of surveying this scene, which was so marvelous In its beauty, when the moon was shining on the sea. These vast, broad leaves and long, snaky tendrils that danced upon the surface of the sea were the Florida gulf-weed. "The tropical grape of the sailors," said Hislop, as we leaned over the leequarter one night. "These plants grow upon the two great banks of the Atlantic, and were known to the Phoenicians, who named them the Weedy Sea."

"I remember." said I; "and that the seamen of Columbus thought they were sent by heaven to stay their course." "You are right." replied the mate, with an approving smile. "It is pleasant to meet one like you, Rodney, who has read that which is worth reading, and remembers it." "The Culf Stream," said Weston, joining in the conversation, "is. a great current about sixty miles broad, caused by the trade winds, which always blow from east to west. It issues from the Gulf between Cape Florida and Cuba, and runs at the rate of three knots an hour along the shores of South and North America, till the Newfoundland bank turns it to th.' southeast; so everywhere its track is known by that gulf-weed which you now see floating past." It is by this mysterious current this mighty river that traverses the ocean that the timber logs of the St. Lawrence, the wrecks of the old plate argosies, and the carved idols of older Mexico and the Caribbean Is los. all covered with the weeds and barnacles of long immersion, have been cast upon the western shores of Scotland r.ml the Hebrides. Every morning tlr: weather became warmer the sea and sky more clear the atmosphere more rarefied. The wind was so steady that scarcely a sheet or tack was altered. Thus for several days we bore on with both sheets aft. as the phrase is, when running right before the wind. Shoals of porpoises plunged across the bows of the brig in the sapphirecolored sea, and when it was smooth a whole fleet of the little nautili passed us with purple sails up; nor were the dark and gliding sharks and the silvery flying-fish wanting at times to keep my attention excited; and the tiny petrels, as they came tripping along, half in the water and half in the air, kept pace with the Eugenie, as she cracked on under a press of jail, dashing the waves around her, ploughing so freely and so fearlessly the deep waters that hide a finnv world and wash the dark and unknown basements of the earth. One glorious morning, when we were within a few days' sail of Hispaniola. there occurred a circumstance which was afterward a source of the deepest regret to us all; how and why, will Lh shown during the progress of my story. The day was fine, even for that region of fine days. The Eugenic was running smoothly before the wimd, and Hislop, with considerable animation, was detailing to the captain and me the appearance of that rare phenomenon, a lunar rainbow, which, by singular good fortune, he had once seen in these latitudes, and which Aristotle declares is never seen but at the time of the full moon a declaration which our learned Scotch mate treated with contempt; for he was a strange fellow, this Marc Hislop, and could with equal facility dilate on the Apology of Plato and the method of club-hauling a square-rigged vessel, or sheering her to her anchor in a gale of wind; on the Prometheus of Eschylus, or the proper mode of lying too in a hurrilane, with everything struck aloft, and topsail yards on the cap; and now, on the subject of the lunar rainbow, he was proceeding to quote from the Portuguese Pilot of Ramusio, when Weston interrupted him by hailing aloft: -Fore-top there!" "Aye, aye, sir," was the usual response from Ned Carlton, a seaman who was perched in the top. (To be continued.)

AN EARTHQUAKE SCIENTIST. Tommy Had Found the Almanac in th (arret. This occurred just before the last full moon at a pretty residence on Trumbull avenue, says the Detroit Free Press. The head of the house is of a scientific turn of mind, loves to investigate the phenomena of nature and takes it as a part of his duty to impart his knowledge to the rest of the family. On the night in question he found an almanac on the table, which he reads. Turning the leaves carelessly while thinking about going to bed, he was surprised to come upon the information that there was to be ah almost total eclipse of the moon that night, and that it would be visible from this part of the globe at 1 a. m. In his excitement he was about to call the rest of the folks, who had retired, but on second thought he hunted up broken bits of glass and went to smoking them, just as though it wero the blazing sun which was to be viewed. This done he watched the clock vigilantly until it was time to wake the others. They had none of his enthusiasm, but went yawning and shivering to the back porch, from which the best view was to be obtained. The moon never looked brighter than it did at 1 o'clock. It must be that the almanac meant 1 o'clock standard time, he explained nervously, and for another half-hour he kept his eyes glued on the silvery orb. Not a spot darkened its surface. Ten minutes later his wife mutinied and her sleepy brood followed her into the house, despite his protest. He followed them and again took up the almanac. "Found that in the attic today," explained 6-year-old Tommy. Slowly the father read aloud from the back until he came to "eighteen hundred and flf " when he ripped the book to fragments and began saying things that ranged the mother to rush tho children upstairs. For a Itetreat. He "What is that you were just trying on the piano?" She "Oh, that's a new march." He "Awfully fast time. Isn't it?" She-Yes; I think the composer was in a hurry to get 'through when he was writing it." Yonkers Statesman.

II SI1ID IS Oil

merican Flag Flies Over the City of Malolos. GEN. AGUINALDO A FUGITIVE. Inurrent Leader Left IIU Capital Two Days Ago Honor of Capture FhIIs to the Troop I nder (Jen. JleArthur Our Casualties . Kille. I and I J Wounded. The Amcriean foives r.ipturrd ihe :own of Malolos March (Iva. M -Arthur's troops were the first to tutor. II was found that the in.-ui gents had liurncd the city and ile.l northward. Aguinaldo ami Iiis raninet. K-fr ia that direction two days aj. Our casual tie.-, i i:i tho day's lightin.q; was .". killed and IS wounded. Latest News from Manila. Tiie most positive denials are given to the statement that President McKinley ha? derided to call for the 35.00 volunteers authorized by the army reorganization act. President McKinley has conferred oil Gen. Otis the fullest power in relation to the discharge of volunteer soldiers. In tlu lighting March 2a the Americans lost two hilled and thirty-six wounded. Tope Is (Jaininr .strength. It is reported at the Vatican that the pope is stronger than for many-day.-; hitherto. THAT ILLINOIS Ceorge C. Rankin of Monmouth, 111., author of the forty-first general assembly's "newspaper bill," is about 45 years of age, and has lived in Warren county most of his life. He is a man of considerable prominence there. He runs a newspaper, is president of the Twilight club, and has served Warren county many years as circuit clerk. His present seat in the legislature is the first state office he has ever held. Mr. Itankin has been asked many times if there is not some Democratic editor in Good Figures for March. March was an unusually prosperous month for the treasury department, receipts from all sources having been 11:1,7.11,000 in excess of the expenditures. Mr. W. I). Owen Dead. While en route from Texarkana. Ark.. Mrs. W. I). Owen, wife of the secretary of state of Indiana, dropped dead in the car at St. Louis. Heavy Losses at lloilo. Foreign business houses lost over 51.000,000 by the destruction of lloilo by the Filipinos beforo tlen. Miller captured the city. Vahi Cleared of Snow. Tho Colorado Midland railroad over Ilagerman pass, in Colorado,, which has been blockaded by snow for sixty days, is now clear. Stand on Chicago 1'lalform. The Jefferson league of Indiana has unanimously decided that the party in the state must stand by the Chicago platform of 180C. Koekefeller Offer I-nrge Sum. John U. Rockefeller has offered the trustees of Denison university at Granville. O., $100,000 if they will raise $150,000. Think Turkey Means War. There is a general impression in Europe that Turkey is actively preparing for war with Bulgaria. Cuban Heclatry Keen bolihed. President McKinley has directed that all registry fees imposed for documenting foreign vessels in Cuba be abolished. Three Week to Serwe. The One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana regiment, now at Savannah, CJa., will be mustered out in about three weeks. (raven for Dead Soldier. Bodies of soldiers who fell In Cuba and Torto Rico will be interred in Arlington cemetery.

LYNCHERS ON TRIAL. South Carolina Citizens Charged irlih Killing Negro Iot master. Fifteen prominent citizens of Lake City. S. C. are on trial here in the United States Circuit court to answer the charge of having lynched Postmaster Fräser B. Baker, a ne?ro. more than a year ago. b ritTsh steamer su n k. I'asjeuger Vessel Goes Doan OS the Isl.tnd of ASdemey. The passenger steamer StcU.i. with seventy to of her passengers and crew, was lost off the i-dar.d of Alder-

nev in the Fr.clish channel. Ore h;;n- ! died and fifty prisons were savr.l. DeOcu for I.afayelte Dollar. Charles K. Harbor, engraved f;r A Philadelphia mint, is ui awing- the design for the dollar to be minted by the I'nited States in cum mo nitration ol La fa ve tic. Headquarters at a Distance. The thinness of the :eb -1 fort o ab Malolos is regarded by den. Otis as an evidence that the iww headquarter-; chosen by Aguinahlo is at consider al!.distance. China Takes I inn Maud. The Chinese government has stated its determination not to lease anutlir;inchof territory to any foreign power. Vice-I'rejddent Hobarl Is Imprmiug. Vice President Hobarl is still kept to his house by an attack of grip, hut is improving. NEWSPAPER BILL. his section who is more a master ot vituperation than himself. The in quirers are seeking a reason for Iiis newspaper bill requiring all articlesand editorial statements which might '"blacken the character" to be signed with the true name of the writer. The "orpcration newspapers of Chicago art otifsrzing strenuously to the bill: Its passage would show up the corrupt in lluenees that are behind most of the biff dailies. It could not in any wa affect the country press. S. n. Armour Dead. S. I. Armour, head of the Kansas City packing house of Armour & Co. and brother to Philip 1). Armour of Chicago, is dead. Think Sherman Will Kecover. Dr. Magill of Duluth. Minn., in at tendance on ex-Secretary Sherman expresses a confident belief in his patient's recovery. Land l.odles of Soldiers. The United States army transport Crook has landed at New York the GS: bodies of soldiers brought from Cubs and Porto Rico. Mut I'se Native Troop. The war department is perfecting a plan to use native troops if possible in lighting Aguinahlo during the rainy season. Will String Telegraph Wire. The Canadian government has decided to construct a telegraph line between Lake Bennett and Dawson Ciiy. Alaska. Offer Loan to Cuban. American capitalists, it is alleged, aro engineering a scheme for a $20.000.000 loan issue to the Cuban assembly. To Iteorganle Red Cro. Plans are on foot to reorganize the National Red Cross society, with a view to greatly increasing its scope. Trusts Organized During March. The total capital of trusts organized in New Jersey last month amounts to tho stupendous sum of $1.111,700,000. Archbishop Ireland at Rome. Archbishop Ireland, who has been visiting Paris and Ixnulon, has returned to Rome for a long visit. Temporary Tamp for Soldiers. Army ofllcers have decided to establish at Southport. S. C, a camp for soldiers returning from Cuba.

Society Directory.

MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A.M.; meets lirst and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. H. Conger, Y. M. John Corbalcy, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. () R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening" of each month. J. C.'jilson, II. P. IL 1J. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No. 2( K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. lohn C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets lirst and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha "McDonald, M. Mrs. Lou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C, F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Rushman, Sec, SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G. Miss Emma Zumbaugh, V. G. Mi:s N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Vm. F. Young, C. C. Cal Switzer, K. of R. and S. 1 HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters; meets lirst and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, No.i (99; meets the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in K. of P . hall . C. M. Slay ter, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. 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 eyery Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hail." 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. RoUien, Clerk, WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROYE, No. 6: meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. Ilammerel, 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. Tibbetts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. R., meets every first and third Tuesday eveninjrs in Simons hall. W. Kelley, Com. Charles Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Bissell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Provost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wedncsday evening in W. O. W. hall. S. B. Fanning, Pics. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month. Jacob Kaszcr, M. D., President. Novitas B. AsjinalL M. D., Sec.