Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 20, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 April 1899 — Page 6

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RODNEY:

An Eton Boy... BY JAYVE9 GRANT.

CHAPTER XVI. (Continued.) Most of the houses are built of good tone, but have all their windows Jron-barred without and barricaded within, for the population of which our ihipmate Antonio was a striking specimen) consists of about thirty thousand olive-skinned Spaniards and double that number of slaves and free jnulattoes. all loose, reckless, fiery and apt to use their knives on trivial occasions. There was not a ship lying there fuT England, or any other craft by irtiich Weston could have sent me Lome. A Spanish steam-packet was tn the eve of departing for Cadiz, but being wearied by the monotony of my long voyage, I was scarcely in a mood tor the sea again, and wished to spend tk little more time on shore instead of leaving with her. However. I wrote to my family by the Spanish mail, acquainting them of iuy safety, with the strange incident which had so suddenly torn me from tLem, and adding that I would return iy the first ship bound for any part of Eiigland; if possible, with the Eugenie, which would probably be freighted for London. After the packet sailed with my letter in her capacious bags, I experienced an emotion of greater happiness and contentment than I had ever done since, leaving home, for the sorrow which I knew all there must have suffered, and would still be suffering, iuc. heavily on my heart. As we were returning to the brig, which Äad now been warped alongside the mole, -when passing through the ftreet -which contains the great hospital, ue heard the sound of trumpets. nd saw the glittering of lances with long streamers above the heads of a dense crowd of people of all shades of color black, yellow and brown and wt had to doff our hats with due reject hs they passed, for in the midst, surrounded by a staff of officers, epauietted and alguletted, their breasts sparkling with medals and crosses, and each of them riding with a cocked hat am-Jer his left arm, came the present Captain General of Cuba, a marshal of the Spanish army, Don Francisco Serrano d Dominguez, attended by an neon of mulatto lancers, all mounted on Spanish horses. He was a fine-looking man, and although aged, had ail tbe bearing of -what k was, or, I should say, ie a grandee of old Castile. On returning to the Eugenie we found Antonio the Cuban working fcinong the crew as lustily and as actively as any man on board. Weston raw offered him remuneration for the time that he had been with us, with a bint that he might find a berth elsewhr: but our castaway evinced the greatest reluctance to leave the brig, and begged that he might be permitted to. remain on board, as three of our best hands had been sent ashore, sick, to the hospital. So short-sighted is man that Captain Weston, despite the dislike of the crew and the advice of Marc Hislop, ordered that the name of Antonio be entered on the ship's books as foremast man. Three weeks after our arrival the Sbrig vas careened to starboard, when dear of all the cargo, and had her ceppe? scraped and cleaned, an operation which the constant rains of the reason greatly retarded. There was much in Cuba to feed an Imaginative mind, and mine was full of the voyages, the daring adventures ani the vast discoveries of CoInmbus, wih the exploits of the buccaneers, whose haunts were amid these wild and, in those days, savage bares. I thought of the gaily plumed and barbarously armed caciques whom Columbus had met in their fleet pirogues, t had encountered in the dense formst which clothe the Cuban mountains forests, old, perhaps, as the days of the deluge of the yellowkinned women with their long, flow inj; black hair and with plates of polished gold hanging in their ears and noses; of the fierce warriors streaked with sable war paint and armed with ose arrows shod with teeth or poivoned fish bones, that fell nannies from the Spanish coats of mail; of the wild Caribs, who devoured their prisoners with whom a battle wan but a jrecursor of a feus.; and of tle fa2DOU6 fighting women tli e terrible Anvazji of Guadaloupe. I thought of the story of Columbus writing the narrative of his wonderful disr-overie. his peril und adventures, n a roil of prircfcment, which he wrapped in oilcloth covered over with wx. inclosed in little cak. and then rat into th j ea, with a prayer, and th hope that If he and his crew perished this record of their achievements might be cast by the ocean on the shore of some Christian land. ' As i sat by the sounding sea that rolled into tbe bay of Matanzaj. what would I not have given to have seen ftb waves cait that old cask, coveri rwith wunIj aüd barnacle, at my Hut now th plodding tn m tug and tb.rq.s(r merchant trader ploughed th water of the ba instead of tbe f'.lfiM Spnjfth caravel, or th Ions war piToguen of the Indian warrior; and where they fought their bloodiest fc&ltl( on the wooded shore, or in the

Or. The Adventures of

green savanna, where the painted cacique and the mailed Castilian met band to hand in mortui strife, the smoke of the steam mill, grinding coffee or boiling sugar, darkened the sky, and the songs of the negroes were heard as they hoed in the plantations, or in gangs of forty t-ucked mahogany logs, each drawn by eight sturdy oxen, to the sea. And so, in a creek of the bay the same place where the Dutch Admiral Heyn sank tbe Spanish plate fleet I was wont to sit dreamily for hours, with the murmur of the waves in my ears, with the buzz of insects and the voice of the mocking-birds among the palmettos, while watching the sails that glided past the headlands of the bay on their way to the Bahama Channel or the great Gulf of Florida. This was my favorite resort. A wood of cocoanut and other trees shaded the place and made it so dark that I have seen the fire-flies glance about at noon. The cocoas are about the height of Dutch poplars, and are covered with oblong leaves, which, when young, are of a pale red. As spring drew on. the branches became covered with scarlet and yellow flowers. Over these the vast corral tree spread its protecting foliage, whence the Spaniards, in their beautiful language, name it La Madre del Cocoa, the smallest of which has at times a thousand lovely scarlet blossoms. CHAPTER XVII. An Evil Spirit. We sailed from tbe Bay of Matanzas at 2 o'clock a. m.. on the 3d of April, bound for the Cape of Good Hope, which we were fated never to reach. The Eugenie had been freighted for that colony with a rich cargo of molasses, sugar, coffee, and tobacco, and arrangements had been made that from Cape Town she would be chartered for London. Thus I had a fair prospect of seeing nearly a half of this terrestrial globe before I repassed my good old father's threshold at Elsmere. I earnestly hoped that we might encounter no more waterspouts or tornadoes, as they were not at all to my tate; but from other causes than phenomena or the war of the elements It was my fortune, or. rather, my misfortune, to undergo such peril and suffering ag were far beyond my concep tion or anticipation. By 8 o'clock on the morning of our departure the light on Piedras Key was bearing south by east, sinking into the waves aatern. and going out as we bade a long farewell to the lovely shorea of Cuba. Three of our men had died of yellow fever in hospital, so we sailed from Matanzas with ten able-bodied hands, exclusive of three ship boys, the captain, first and second mates. In the waters, after the rainy season, the sky is so cloudless in the forenoon that the heat of the sun becomes almost insupportable; thus we were soon glad to resort to the use of windsails rigged down the open skylight to an awning over the quarter-deck for coolness, and to skids for the prevention of blisters on the sides of the brig; but in the starry night the land-wind which comes off these fertile isles, laden with the rich aroma of their splce-growlng savannas, is beyond description grateful and delicious. Without aay incident worth recording, we ran through the sea of the Windward Isles, thence along the coast of South America, and when we approached the calm latitudes, as that tract of the ocean near the equator is named, we became sensible of the overpowering increase of heat, while the breezes were but "fanning ones," a the saHors term those which, under the double influence of the air and motion of the hull, are just sufficient to make the lighter canvas collapse and swell again. We were soon aware of other annoyances tha mere heat, for now It seemed a if there was an evil spirit on board the Eugenie, and that nothing went right within or about her. The crew aulked and quarreled among themselves as if the demon of mischief lurked in the vessel, and daily something unfortunate occurred. Halyards or brace gave way. by which the yard.H wwe thrown aback :and in one instance the brig nearly lost her mainmast. Standing and running rigging were found to be mysteriously fretted, and even cut, as if by a knife; and then the crew whispered together of Antonio ei Cubano that horrid, dark, mysterious fellow, wbcxs character none of us could fathom. Twice our compasee went wrong, and remained so for days! and before the cause wau discovered the Eugenie had drifted far from her course. Tbl varying was inexplicable, until Hislop, who set himself to watch, and frequently saw Antonio hovering near the. binnacle at night, uusbipped the com pas boi and found ther were concealed near it an irou uiarllnapike on one aide and a lump of tallow on the other, either of which wa -uJlcient tu affect the magnetic needle. After tiieir removal the compass worked a well as before. Th crew wore strict! jr questioned; all yowwI total ignorance of the transaction, and Antonio summoned every saint in the SpanJah calendar to attest his innocence, but none, however, appeared. The crew now felt convinced that, in

spired by some emotion of malice or

mischief, he alone was the culprit; and if not loud, their wrath was deep against him. These variations of our compass set the busy brain of Marc Hislop to work, and in a day or two he declared that he had discovered a plan for preventing the repetition of tricks so dangerous by insulating the needle so as to protect the compass from attractions false or dangerous. I am uncertain whether he perfected this experiment, but Antonio soon went to work another way; for one day, when he was supposed to be busy in thc maintop, he shouted, "Stand from under!" and ere Hislop. who was just beneath, could give the usual response. "Let go!" a heavy m&rlinspike. the same which had been found in the binnacle, slipped from the hand of Antonio and fell crashing through the topgrating. The iron bar crashed into the deck at the feet of Hislop; whether this occurred by inadvertence or design we knew not, but the Scotsman thought the latter. "That rascally Spanish picaroon will work us some serious mischief before we overhaul our ground-tackle or see the Cape." said Weston, who was enraged by this new incident, and the narrow escape of Hislop, for whom he bad a great regard. "Aye, he has a hang-dog look about him that I never liked," replied the latter. "He seems to be always down by the head, somehow. We should have left him in his skiff, just as we found him. like a bear adrift on a grating, or a pig in a washing tub." On another occasion he injured Will White, one of the crew, by letting the topmaul fall from the foretop. where it usually lay, for driving home the fid of tie mast. His dreams again beearne a source of annoyance to all in the forecastle bunks; and on being closely and severely questioned by Captain Weston and the men as to whether he had ever killed any one, by accident or otherwise, after being long badgered, he drew his ugly knife from its sharkskin sheath and replied sullenly: "Only a Chinaman or ho, when in California." "Well, I wish you would flap a stopper on your mouth when you go to sleep, or turn in out of earshot in a topgallant studding sail as far off as you choose, and the further off the better," said old Roberts, sulkily, after the ravings of the Cubano had kept him awake for several nights. "You seem to drearo a great deal, Antonio," said Weston, with a keen glance, beneath which the Spaniard quailed. "Si, Senor Capitano," fce stammered. "How is this?" "I am very fond of dreams," he replied, with a bitter smile on his lip and a scowl in his dark eye. "Have you pleasant ones?" "I cannot say that they are always so, but I should like to procure them." "Shall I tell you how to do so?" shipmate?" "If you please, senor," growled the Spaniard. "Go to sleep, if you can, with that which is better than the formula tf prayers, which at times you pay out like the line running off a log reel." "And what is it you mean, mio capitano?" "A good conscience," replied Weston, with a peculiar emphasis. A black scowl came over the Spaniard's swarthy visage, as he touched the rim of his hat, darted a furious glance at his chief accuser, the whitehaired seaman Roberts, and to end the examination walked forward. (To be continued.) How It Feels to He Hanged. In the Wide World Magazine, Richard Hicks, an old-time actor, tells of his narrow escape from being hanged on the stage of the Queen's Theater, Dublin. He was playing the part of Achmet, a particularly villainous character, who, after a long career of crime, is, to the general satisfaction of the audience, captured by two British soldiers and promptly hanged. "One night, while struggling with my captors, the rope slipped from my shoulders and knotted itself round my neck. Just as I whs being hauled up," says Mr. Hick?. "Never shall I forget that awful moment. Directly I felt the tug at ray neck I gave a convulsive kick and tried to shout 'Stop!' but the word could not escape from my twitching Up. I could only make a gurgling noise. Frantically I kicked and struggled. Fain there was none, strangely enough, beyond a chokiug, suffocating sensation, and I could hear the tumultuous applause of the audience. who were hugely entertained with what they imagined was my realistic acting. Then a terrible sensation, like molten lead rushing down my spine, pervaded my body, and I thought my legs were bursting. I gave another mighty struggle and strove ah! how I trova to scieani. I seemed to behold a mighty rush of gren water, and my ears were filled with the roar of a cataract. I have a dim recollection ol seelug a great crimson sun ahiniug dimly from behind the waterfall, aud I can remember falling indefinitely through space. Two days afterward 1 recovered consciousn, and then I suffered indescribable agouy. Tli auffocatlng ena1ion still remuinod, but it was accompanied by an unquiiuchable thirst, not to mention fearful paiuj in my body an HtnliH." Colorado's MoauUln ak. Tker are 110 uiouutaiti lu Colorado wku peak aru or 12,QvO feet t-he wfeaci loveJ. , Tue average amouut of sicklies la human IWc is iwine day out of tb yeiar.

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IOWA PEOPLE GO TO CANADA Mn Bnya a Farm with Proceda from Two-Third of One Crop. W. R. Milburn, John Holmes, M. R. Dagger, E. L. Stetson, of Buena Vista county, Iowa, report as follows of the Canadian North-West as to Its suitability for farming, and the advantages It offers to the agricultural immigrant from the United States: "We came here solely to look up improved farms and, if suitable, to select such as pleased ns best. We have not visited the homestead districts at all, though we believe them to be very inviting. Our inquiries have been confined solely to the district around Hartney. Deloraine and towards the Souris River in Manitoba. Our impressions of all that region are in every way satisfactory, and we have dec!ded to go back to Iowa at once, and. having disposed of our several interests there, to return to Manitoba in the month of March next, and, effecting our purchase of improved farms, which we find we can do at reasonable rates, immediately begin farminc. We are srreatlv nlenspd with

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MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F. and A. M. ; meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. H. Conger, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening of each month. J. C.Jilson, II . P. H. B. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No. 26, K. T. ; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. 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 lodge rooms on Michigan street. C, F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Bushman, 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. Miss N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Young, C. C. Cal Switzer, K. of R. and S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters; meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, N0.1499; 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. V. 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 eyerv 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 hali. 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. Hammerei, 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. H. Gove, Chief. Chas. Tibbetts, 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, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 7.30 p. m., in Pissell hall. Vrert A. Beldon, Commander. Alonzo Stevenson, Provost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall. S. B. Fanning, Pres. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month. Jacob Kaszer, M. D., President. Novitas B. Aspinali. M. D., Sec