Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 May 1899 — Page 6

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An CHAPTER XIX (Continued.) 'Hallo!" said Tom Ixmibourne, sud dfnly looking aloft, as the topsails Capped and shivered; 'she's yawning or steering wild; what is that Spaniard about?" "Hut ivhere is he?" added Carlton, as we now missed Antonio from the wheel; "Antonio, where are you?" "(lone overboard. I hope." exrlaimed the second mate, with something more that neea not be repeated, as he rushed to the wheel, and. after making it revolve a few times rapidly, he filled the sails and steadied the brig. This was done just in time, for the Kugenie had a press of canvas on her, and, had she been taken aback, the consequences might have been serious. "Look about for the skulking lubber." said Lambourne. in great wrath, "and souse him well with a Mushbucket; another moment and the craft would have been broached to!" "He must have crept behind the longboat and got into the forecastle," tuggested Carlton. 'I'll bring him up with a round turn for playing this trick." grumbled lambourne. "Hush," said I. as a strange sound fell upon my ear. "What is it?" asked the others, listening. "A cry did you not hear it?" "So nonsense!" said they, together. "It was a cry that came from somewhere." "I did hear something," said Will "White; 'tut it was a sheave creaking In a block aloft, I think." "No, no," said I, pausing by the capstan, as a terrible foreboding seized mt; "it came from the cabin." "There is no one there but the CapUln, Hislop. and the boy Bill, who Bleeps in the steerage, and they are all three sound enough by this time," said Lambourne. "But the sound was from the cabin," I persisted, hastening a't. At that moment another cry, loud and piteous a cry tt at sank into a hoarse moan, echoed through the brig, "piercing the night's dull ear," and ringing high above the welter of the tea alongside, the bubble at the stem and stern, or the hum of the wind through the taut rigging. We all rushed aft to the companion. End at that instant Antonio sprang up the cabin stair. By the clear splendor of the tropical moonlight we could see that his usually swarthy visage was pale as death, while his black eyes blazed like two burning coals. He grasped his unsheathed knife.the blade of which, as well as his hands and clothes, were covered with blood! My heart grew sick with vague apprehension, and my first thought was for a weapon; but none was near. "What have you been about, you rascally picaroon and why did you leave the wheel?" shouted Iambourne, becoming greatly excited; "the masts might have gone by the board what devil's work have you been after below?" Then the dark Spanish creole grinned, as the blood dripped from his hands on the white and moonlit deck. "Knock him down with a handspike, Carlton," added Lambourne, w ho could not leave the wheel; "knock him down the shark-faced swab!" On hearing this, Antonio drew from his breast a revolver pistol, one of a pair which we knew always hung loaded in Weston's cabin, and fired straight at the head of Carlton who dodged the shot, which killed the seaman named Will Wrhite. who tdood behind him. The ball pierced the brain of the poor fellow, who bounded convulsively nearly three feet from the deck; he fell heavily on his face and never moved again, for he was dead dead as a stone. In its suddenness this terrible deed paralyzed us with horror, not unmixed with fear, as we were all unarmed and completely in the power of this Spanish demon, the report of whose pistol liought all the startled view tumbling over each other out of the forecastle. ' Aha. maldita! Santos y Angeles!" i Mid the Spaniard, waving the pistol, i the muzzle of which yet smoked, to- I ward us in a half ircle. as a warning j for all to stand back; "did you think to run your rigs upon me? I am Antonio ei Cubano. and don't value you ! all a rope's-end or a rotten castano, ! as you shall find. I am now the cap- ! tain of this ship, and shall force you i all to obey me, or else" here he swore one of those sonorous and blasphem- i ous oaths which run so glibly from a j Spanish tongue "I will shoot you all ! In succession, ill 1 am the last man left on board, and when I am tired of the ship I can burn or scuttle her. Do tou understand all this?" Dead silence followed this strange tddress, the half of which was scarcely understood by our men, as it was Aid in Spanish. "Pasta!" (avast) I see that you do understand." he resumed; "and now Jgin by obedience. Throw this carrionthis bestia muerta overboard." Put perceiving how we all shrank back "Overboard with him!" he added. J-rutally kicking the inanimate body of poor Will White; "or demon io. I fhall send the first ho disobeys me to keep him company." He grasped me by the hand his nattful dutch was firm as a smith's

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Eton Boy, GRANT. vise and then he leveled his pistol at the head of Ned Carlton. For a moment the latter stood irresolute, and then, teeing the black muzzle of the revolver within a foot of his head, he muttered a deep malediction, stamped his foot with rage on the deck, and said: "Mr. Rodney, bear a hand with me to launch this murdered man this poor fellow overboard!" "Obey!" thundered Antonio. Like one in a dream I bent over the dead man, on whose pale face, glazed eyes and relaxed jaw the bright moonlight was shining, and in my excitement and bewilderment I nearly slipped and fell into the pool of blood which flowed from his death wound. I had never touched a corpse before, and an irrepressible shudder ran through all my veins. But, that emotion once over, I could have handled a dozen with perhaps indifference; and there are few who, after touching the dead, have not experienced this change of feeling. Ned Carlton, with a sound like a sob in his honest breast a sob of mingled rage and commiseration raised the yet warm body; I took the feet, and through one of the quarter-boards, which was open, we launched it into the great deep, and as the brig flew on, rolling before the early morning wind, there remained no trace of poor Will White, but his blood, a dark pool upon the deck, and the crew stood staring at it and at each other with blank irresolution, horror and dismay expressed in all their faces. Empty-handed and defenseless as we all were, each was afraid to speak or act, lest he might be the next victim whom the merciless Cubano would shoot down. With a growl of defiance Antonio now turned away, and, brandishing the revolver in token of the obedience he meant to exact, he descended slowly into the cabin, where we soon heard him smashing open the lockers, and busy with the case-bottles in the steward's locker, or Billy the cabin boy's pantry. His departure seemed a relief to all, but in half a minute after he was gone below little Billy, or "Boy Bill," as he was usually termed, whose sleeping place was the steerage, rushed up the cabin stair in his shirt and ran among us, sobbing with fear and dismay. CHAPTER XX. Conference of the Crew. Some time elapsed before the poor boy became sufficiently coherent to be understood, but it would seem that on hearing the first cry, which had alarmed me. he sprang out of his berth, which was at the foot of the companion way, and on looking iuto the cabin, he saw by the night light which swung in the skylight, the Cubano, armed with a bloody knife, rush from the captain's state-n in into that of the mate, which was o;- i posite. ; Another choking cry acquainted iiim that Antonio had stabbed Hislop in Iiis sleep; and fearing that his own turn would come next, he had crept into an empty cask which lay below the companion-ladder, and remained there, trembling with dread, until he took an opportunity of rushing on deck and joining us. This terrible revelation added to our dismay. We were now in a desperate predicament, without a captain or mate to navigate the brig, and at the mercy of a well-armed desperado, to whom homicide was a pastime; thus, all who had .handled him so severely on the night we crossed the line began to feel no small degree of alarm for their own safety, being certain that more blood woul'l be shed the moment he tame on deck. All dressed themselves with the utmost expedition, and it was resolvel to hold a council of war. Iambourne was still at the wheel; and to be prepared for any emergency, he resolved to reduce the canvas on the brig. So the royals were taken down, all stud-nK-sails. taken in. and the topsails were handed; all this 'was done as quietly s possible, lest any sound might aro,,se ,he fien(l who seemed now tw Psess the Eugenie, Injbourne ventured to peep down tne skylight, when he saw Antonio drinking brandy from a case bottle, witnont troubling himself with a g'a&. Then the Spaniard proceeded to ttJre himself in the best clothes uf Captain Weston; he forced open several lockfast places, and took from Ihem money and jewelry, which he concealed abiut his person. What his ultimate object could be In performing these acts of plunder on the open sea. we could neither conceive nor divine, but on chancing to glance upward, he caught a glimpse of Tom's eye peering down. There was an explosion, a crashing of glass and a ball from a revolver, fired upward grazed Tom's left ear and pierced the rim of his sou'-wester as a hint that our Cubano had no intention of being overlooked in his operations below. We heard him close the cabin door with a bang, and after locking it, throw himself on the floor behind it, with the intention of sleeping, probably, but with the fiJl resolution that j no one should enter without disturb-

ing him; and in this way, after examining his pistols, he reposed every night afterward while on board. "By Jingo! I thought the killing o them birds would lead to bad luck somehow," said Henry Warren, an old foremast man. with a reproachful glance at me, as he threw the two albatrosses overboard. We now held a solemn conference to meet the emergency which was certain to come anon, and to consider the best means of subduing and disarming the culprit. "Whoever goes nigh him in the cabin, either by the door or the skylight, risks being stabbed or shot." said Tattooed Tom; "so we must go to work some other way, shipmates, and that other way must be considered." "We might close and batten the skylight and companlouway. and then starve or smoke him out." suggested one of the crew, Francis Probart, our carpenter. "Smoke him out?" echoed Tom. "Yes. as we do rats." "By what?" "Fill a bucket with spun yarn and greased flax, with sulphur and bilgewater ain't that the medical compound for rats?" "Nonsense," said Tom; "you would burn the ship " "As h has often threatened to do." said Carlton, "and may do yet." A most extraordinary scheme was proposed by one man that we should launch the longboat, throw into her some bags of bread and gang-casks of water, unship the compass, doublebank the oars, and shove off for the coast of South America, after scuttling the brig and leaving Antonio to his fate. We were in a horrible state of perplexity, and I seemed to ee constantly before me the gashed bodies of my two kind, brave and hospitable friends Captain Weston and Marc Hislop lying in their berths dead and unavenged, with their destroyer beside them! We had the capstan-bars, and with these it was proposed to assail him when next he came on deck. Then we had the carpenter's tools, among which a hand-saw, an auger, an adze and a hatchet, made very available weapons, and these, with the old cutlass and harpoons wnich figured on the night we crossed the line, were speedily appropriated. I was armed with a heavy claw-hammer, and, vowing firmly to stand by each other, we resolved to lynch Antonio the moment he came out of his den. While we were thus employed in devising the means of punishment, the dark shadows of night passed away; the morning sun came up in his tropical splendor, and the blue waves of the southern sea rolled around us in light, but not a sail was visible on their vast expanse. The crew seemed pale and excited, as they might well be, and with buckets of water we cleansed the deck from the blood that stained it. The morning advanced into noon, and the vessel was steered her due course, for the wind was still fair. Ned Carlton was at the wheel, and the men were all grouped forward, when suddenly Antonio appeared on deck with a knife in his sash and a revolver in each hand. He was so pale that his olive face seemed almost a pea-green, and a black crust upon his cruel lips showed the extent of his potations in the cabin. He glanced into the binnacle, and perceiving that the brig was still being steered her old course, he cried, in a hoarse voice: "Hombres, allegarse a la cuesta!" (men, bear toward the land) and pointing to the direction in which he knew the vast continent of South America from which we were probably four or five hundred miles distant must be, he added orders in English to shape the brig's course due west, and stamped his right foot on the deck t give his words additional force. (To be continued.)

MAIL NUISANCE That Threatened to Inundate the Via wily of a New Father. At an Adelaide street residence the servant went to the door, met a perspiring and scowling letter carrier, and took in a basketful of mail. It was the third such lot of the day. and there had been a like delivery for a week. "Dump it into the furnace." roared the young man who is at the head of family. "I'm going to see the postmaster, write' the head of the department at Washington, and get out an injunction. I'll see if there is not some way to abate this nuisance." "Put there may be some other mail; something that we want to read." interposed a gentler and feebler voice. "I don't care if there is. I don't care if there's a draft or a postal order in every other envelope, ('buck the whole outfit into the furnace and don't lose any time doing it. Whoever's working this rig on me may think he's smart good and plenty. It's the confoundest, meanest, smallest, most impertinent thing I ever heard of." "Hut it's only a joke my dear." "I'll joke 'em. Do you know that we've received over a car lot of catalogues, prospectuses, and all that sort of thing from female mimwie in the country? There were over I'oO in the first batch and that was the smallest one received. Dump the whole batch into the .U'.'r.ace. I say. Nice thing! T guess not, sending up those female seminary advertisements and our little girl not two weeks old yet. You can bet that I'll stop the thing or know the reason why." iH'troit Free Press. It is. an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes that we should give soft words atid hard arguments that we should not so much strive to vex as to convince an enemy. Bishop Wilkins

WOM EN IX THE MIßROß

MAGIC IK THE LOOKING GLASS IN THE FAR EAST. Queer Conceits That Are Found la Oriental Mirror omt CJueer Theories Advaucett aa to the, Cause of the Effect, I Kvery girl who wishes to try the experiment can possess a magic lookingglass n Hallowten night, but in China and Japan magic mirrors are among the daily possessions of the brighteyed oriental women. The ladies of Japan use in making their toilet a small round mirror, several inches in diameter, made of a kind of speculum metal, brightly polished and coated with mercury. At the back there are various devices, including Chinese and Japanese written characters, emblems. !andcapes. etc. These stand out in bright relief and are polished like the front surface. Now, if the direct rays of the sun are allowed to fall upon the face of the mirror and are then re1 fleeted in a screen in many cases, though not in all. the figures at the back will appear to shine through the Mibtance of the mirror as br.ght lines upon a moderately bright ground. These are so-called Japanese "magic" mirrors, but we believe they are found in China as well. There have been many theories as to the process of endowing mirrors with this peculiar property we have mentioned. Some writers consider that the pressure to which the mirror was subjected during the polishing, and which is greatest on the parts, in relief, was concerned in the production of figures. If the bai k of the mirror i nibbed with a blunt-pointed Instru-. ment bright lines appear in the image orrcsponding to the position of the part nibbed. This experiment is quite easy to repeat. It would seem as if the pressure on the back during polishing would cause some change in the leflecting surface corresponding to the raised parts whereby the amount of light reflected was greater, or supposing that of the light which falls upon the surface a part is diffused and the rest concentrated, those parts corresponding to the raised portion on the back are altered by the pressure in uch a way that more light is reflected and therefore a bright image appears. The theory now generally accepted Is that of Profs. Ayrton and Perry in 18T8. They showed that the patterns seen in the reflection were due to differences in the curvature of the surface produced by bending and subsequent polishing. Warming a mirror also alters its possibilities. A thick mirror which gave no patterns when :old sometimes developed one upon heing heated. Prof. Thompson has -hown that a glass mirror having a pattern cut on the back developed image properties when the mirror was hent. By using very thick glass, passing; a spirit lamp behind a strip of mirror, a dark band may be caused to pass along the screen, illuminated by light refected in the mirror. Prof. Thompson has also found that Japanese mirrors when imported could be made so by bending them mechanically ;o as to make them slightly convex. SNIPE SHOOTING. I'renerveN on the Atlautlr Coiwt leaeed 1t K-Ireldent Cleveland. Ex-President Cleveland, in company cvith Rev. E. E. Phillips, pastor of the Vilage M. E. church, has become the proprietor of leased property for shooting purposes on Sandwich marshes. Mr. Cle eland's first visit here was luring the flight of snipe and plover aaily last fall. Previous to that he nad heard of the shooting advantages, tnd inquired of the selectmen for some ne to guide him to the grounds. He .vas referred to Rev. Mr. Phillips, and from tins introduction great shooting possibilities have been opened for the i.-president. Mr. Cleveland's llrst trip was not successful, but cm the second visit a bag of twenty plover .vas taken, and the day's shooting undoubtedly established in the visitor's mind the reputation of the blinds, for at its end he suggested leasing the property for shooting purposes, the preserve to take in all the available fMoperty. Today he haa under control a mile of shore on Barnstable Bay, running 'äst to the site of the old Capa Cod canal property, and from there In a southerly direction to Sagamore Hill, taking in a vast area of meadow between Scussett Harbor, the old canal and rfagamore. The distance acrosa tiie preserve is such that one could M'arcfly see birds on a clear day when they first crossed the line of the preserve. On the shore line east of the harbor the lease extends to the lowwaUr mark, and on the west to the harbor, on what are Scussett Harbor marshes proper, to high water mark. The whole entirely surrounds the main harbor, making it one of the best shooting preserves in the United States. She I'nderttootl. A little girl had learned the verse, "Suffer little children to come unto Me," to repeat at a concert. She stepped on the platform and began, "Suffer- " It was her first attempt at public recitation. She was frightened, and stopped for a moment, then courageously began again. "Suffer little" Again her fear overcame her, but being a resolute little one. she made a third attempt and said, "Suffer little children." The third time she looked with dismay at the upturned faces and stopped. With a last grand effort she repeated, not exactlj the verse, but these words: "Jesui wants us all o come to Him, and don't anybody try to stop us."

WAS IT ALUMINIUM?

A Strange story of the Time of Tiberius. It is related by Pliny that during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius x certain worker in metals appeared at the palace, and showed a. I?autift:l cup made of a brilliant white metal that shone like sihr. In presenting it to the emperor, the artificer purposely dropped it. The goblet was so bruised by the fall that it seemed hopelessly injured, but the workman tiwk his hammer, and in the presence of the court speedily repaired th damage. It was evident that the mtai -vas not silver, although almost as brilliant. It was more durable and nr.: oh. lighter. The emperor qstione 1 th man, and learned that he had extracted -he metal from an argillaceous ear'h probably the clay knovn to modern chemists as alumina. Tiberius then asked it' any one Ix-.-ides the worker knew of the process, ami receive i the proud reply that the secret was kno va only to the speaker and to Jupiter. The answer was fatal. The emperor had rehVcted that if it. were possible to obtain such a metal from so common a ubstance as clay the value of gold and silver would be reduced, and he determined to avert such a catastrophe. He caused the workshops of discovery to be destroyed, and the luckless artificer himself to be. seized and decapitated, o that his .r-n might perish with him. It is possible that the wanton cruelty of TiVrius deprived the world of the val-nble metal, aluminum. Youth's Companion. Natives of Ovlon believe the cocoanut tree will not grow out or reach of the sound of the human voice.

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