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23 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1897—24\ PAGES. THE PILGRIM SHIP BY CUTCLIFFE HYNE. (Copyright, 1897, by Cateiiffe Hyne.) Written for The Evening Star. Even before he left Jeddah, Captain Ket- tle was quite aware that by shipping pil- grims on the iron decks of the Saigon for transit across the Red sea he was trans- gressing the laws of several nations, ¢s- pecially those of Great Britain and her de- pendencies. But what else could the poor man do? Situated as he was, with such a tempting opportunity ready to his hand, he would have been less than human if he had neglected to take the bargain which was offered. And though the list of things that have been said against Captain Owen Kettle is both black and long, I am not aware that any one has yet alleged that the little sailor was Anything more Or less than human in all his many frailties. Cortolvin came to the chart house and put this matter of illegality to him in plain words when the engines chcse to break down two days out of Jeddah, and the Saigon lolled helpless in the blazing Red sea heat. Cortolvin up to that time had not “made himself remarked. He had marched cn board from the new Jeddah quay, where the railway Is, and posed as an Arab of the Sahara, who was glorying in the cewly acquired green turban of a hadji. He was nicked on the mate's tally as a “nigger, along with some 340 other dark-skinned fol- lowers of the prophet, and he had spent those two days upon an orthodox square of ragged carpet spread on the rusted iron plating of the lower foredeck. When the pilgrims were mustered for victualing he had filed in with the rest, and held out a brass lotah for his ration of water and a red square of canvas for his dole of amed rice. You could count his ribs twenty yards away, but he'd the look of a healthy man, and when on mornings he helped to throw overboard those of his fellow-pilgrims who had died during the night, it was plain to see that he was a fellow of more than ordinary muscular strength. He came to Captain Kettle in the chart house to report that the pilgrims contem- plated seizing the Saigon so soon as ever the engines were once more put in running order. “They've declared a jehad against you. if you know what that is,” said Cor- vin. : tora holy war, or some such skittles, isn’t * said Kettle. ‘That's about the size of it,” said the adji. “You'll have to look out if you in- nd to remain master of this steamboat. “{ don’t require any teaching my_busi- ness from passengers,” said Capt. Kettle, stiffly. aan right,” sald Cortolvin; “have it your own way. But I think you might be de- cently grateful. I've risked my life by coming to give you news of what was in the wind. And you can't pretend that the information is not useful. You've a coolie crew, who will be absolutely foolish if trouble comes. These Lascars always are that way. You've just your two white en- gineers and two white mates to back you up, and the five of you wouldn't have a show. You've 340 fanatics to deal with, who are all fighting bred and fighting fit. ‘They're all well armed, and they wouldn't a bit object to die serimmaging in such a cause. You knew it's part of their creed that if they peg out while fighting gaiours they go slick to paradise by lightning ex- press. That wily old camel driver of Mec- ca painted his heaven as just the sort of dandy place to suit this kind of cattle, and, as most of them have a beast of a time on this earth, they're anxious to move along upstairs whenever a decent opportunity, ers to get there.” oethey an ugly crowd to tackle; I ‘ant that eethey are right, and don't you forget it. I might point out, captain, that, personally speaking, I'd been a lot safer if I'd stayed down on the lower fore deck yonder and held my tongue. They'd have got you to an absolute certainty if they ambushed you as was intended, and I could have kept out of the actual throat cutting and preserved a sound skin. They've all got a profound respect for me: I'm a very holy man.’ “And as it is?” Hadji Cortolvin shrugged his shoulders. “Oh, I chip in with you.” ; “If-you'll tell me why?” “Cousinship of the skin, I suppose. You are white by birth, and I believe I should turn out to be white also if I kept out of the sun for awhile and had several Turk- ish baths. Of course, I've a snuff-colored hide on me now, and during this last two years I've been living with men of color, ard following their ways, and thinking their thoughts. Funny, isn’t it? I come across you: I don't know you from Adam: I can’t say I particularly like what I've seen of you: and yet here am I, rounding on my former mates, and chipping in with yeu, on the clear knowledge that I shall Pr bly get killed during the next few hours for my pains.” “May I esk your name?” said Kettle. “I believe, sir,” he added, with a bow, “that You are a sentleman.’ The hadji laughed. “So far as I recol- t, I was that once, captain. Sorry I haven't a card on me, but my name's W. H. in Yorkshire, before I was idiot enough to go wandering off the Cook's tourist routes into the middle of Arabia.” I'm Welsh myself.” said Kettle, ‘ve known men from Yorkshire. x ir, please. “but Shake Will you have a whisky er sour it out, captain. I haven't tasted a Christian drink for thirty weary months. And you've got a chattie hung up in the draft of a port. Cool water, ye gods! Bis- miilah! But it is good to be alive some- times.” Capt. Kettle looked with distaste at the hadji’s attire. “Won't you sling that filthy night gown thing of yours overboard?” he asked, “and have a wash? I can rig you out with some pyjamas from the slopchest.” ie, “Yeu, I've a wife.” But Cortolvin would not change his dirt and squalor just then. He had worn it too long to be affected by it. “And,” said he, “I don’t want to advertise he fact that I'm an Englishman just at present. If my dear friends cown yonder on the lower deck knew it they'd not wait for the en- xines to be repaired. They'd fizzle up just uke gunpowder, there and then, and the ole lot of us white men would be pulled into tassels before we'd time to think.” { don’t know ebout that,” said Kettle. “I've faced some of the uglicst crowds that have floated on the seas before this, and thought they were going to have it all own way, and they found when it we to shooting that I could keep my end up very handily.” He waved his guest to a deck chair, viaced a box of cheroots hospltably open on the chart table, and then he went out- side the chart house ed over the bridge deckrall. The awning above him threw a clean-cut shade, which swung to sad fro as the Saigon rolled over the faint, «fly swell: and outside its shelter the sua’s rays fell like molten brass, and the metal Rerk was hot enovgh to raise a blister. ‘The air was motionless and stagnant and greasy with the smell of humanity. The Cortolvin, and I lived near Richmond, | whole fabric of the steamer shimmered in the dancing heai. For the dense mass of pilgrims below the situation zppcoiched the intolerable. to itself, the rusted iron deck bereath their bare skins would kave grown hot enough to char them. Nothing but a constant sluicing with water made it in any way to be endured. And as the water from along- sice came up to them as warm as tea, it did but little to refresh. The African can with- stand most temperatures which are thro from above onto the face of this planet, but even the African can at times die from heat as glibly as his betters. Even as Ket- tle watched, one of the pilgrims, a grizzle- headed Hausa irom the western Soudan, Was contorted with heat apoplexy, breath- ed stertoriously for a minute or so, and then lay still, «nd immediately became a prey to flies innumerable. Two of his near- est comrades bestirred themselves to look at him: proaounced that life was extinct; stood up, and with an effort carried the body out of the press, and heaved it over “k into the oily sea be- It is not good that the dead should remain with the quick, even for minutes, in_circumstarces such as those. And while the bearers carried him away, an oid white-haircd negro from Sckoto stood upon his feet, swaying to the roll of the ship, and faced the heat-blurred east with bowed head. Aloud he bore witness that Ged was great, and that Mahommet was the prophet of God: and that of mortals, each man’s fate was writ big upon his fore- head. And then the rest of the pilgrims bent their foreheads to the torturing deck plates, and maie profession of the faith, following his words. Capt. Kettle. from his stand against the rail of the bridge deck, pitied the heathen, and thought with a complacent sigh of a certain obscure chapel in South Shields, but at the same time he could not avoid Left “T have lived soonest thoes men = sel sort for two solid years, and many em, have shown me kindrlessed** “You should have Spow it of that, sir, befere you came to re in the chart ouse.”” i as “I did think of ityobut if couldn't be a renegade to my calorvand so I came. But, captain, will you let,me speak to them? ‘Will you let me tell ti at their scheme is known and prepared for? Will you let me explain to them wi at they will haye ta. ace if they start an outbreak?” Cheroot savagely out into the sunshine.) Capt. Kettle frowned. °Kou sill. under- “You can take it from me that I have a| stand that I am not frightened of the wife, captain. But—well, you see I've al-| beasts,” he sald, ways been an Arabic scholar, and I thought | “] quite know that,”“said‘Cortolvin, “and Td come out to the Hedjaz to study dia-|1 am sorry to spoil axfight, But it is their lects for a year or so. It would be a pleas-| tives I am begging for.” « ant change after the milk and honey of a| “Very well, said. Kettle) “you can fire country life. I don't seem to have got | away. I don't speak their bat. and it is as killed, and I think I've liked it on the | well they should know*fromr some oae what whole. It's been exciting, and I know | they have to look forward so. Here's a life more about bastard Arabic than = preserver, which you May; find useful. It's He thavs ang’ satisfaction TET chose to a6 | {2S,00ly, weapon T have to offer, you. My a in : home now, I could pose as no end of a big! the pair of them went outside the chart Ce ee eT ee ae | house ant walked £0 the head of the tor- = MS Abe 4 a nm e dec! yes" he added, with 9 stare out Hint Whe Mente” ta Gee second gine nea boning sunaliiee beyond the doorway, “Oh, | sige it, with thumbs in his walat = 2 On |: es, I've a wife.” i nger *Capt. Kettle did not quite Le Rag Peep rg Bie eel ap Sheeran tr ad so he sald politely and vaguely. ‘Well, of | gether in knots, and talked excitedly. Cor- ccurse, you know your own affairs best, | toivin clapped his hands, and the sea of sir.” ‘Then he took a long and steady look | SoVaze fares turned toward him. at his guest. “Youll excuse me, sir, but | “rere were representatives in that mob yeur name seems familiar. I wonder if half the ometan lens of north= you'd got that beard and some of yout hair | from halt t pore Poomles of ey Oe breeders of the desert, jet black farmers ‘ortolvin,” the little man mused. “I'm ees ere paar Soren nae ‘e seen that name before some-} feitaheen from lower Egypt, an Exba who had served in the British police force at Lagos, merchants from the back of the Barbary states, workers in metal from So- koto, and weavers from Timbukhtu. They were not all holders of the title of hadji, for though by the Mahometan law every male must make the Mecca pilgrimage at least once im a lifetime, unless d by poverty or lameness, it may be done by deputy. And these deputies, fierce, truc- ulent rufflans, who had lived their lives amongst incessant wars and travel, were perhaps the most dangerous of all the lot. ‘They listened to thelr Jate associate with a momentary hush of surprise. He spoke to them in fluent Arabic. He did not ap- peal to their better feelings; he knew his audience. He said it was written that if they tried this thing, if they attempted to capture the steame! they should surely fail; that all things were prepared to give them battle, and that a horrible death awaited those who persisted in their de- sign.’ And then he tried to point out the nature of the Saigon’s defenses, but there he failed. It is ill work to explain the properties of high-pressure steam to sav- ages. A murmur rose among them, which grew. They roared defiance. And then the great black mass of them rushed for the iron ladder. Capt. Kettle clapped a whistle to his ps and blew it shrilly. “Now, then, Mr. Cort- olvin,” he cried, “away with you aft to help McTodd. ‘These cattle here want something more than talk, and I’m goixg his forehead with the back of a grimy knuckle. “There's no accounting for taste, captain. I'm the owner of acres near Rich- mend, and if I chose I could ride about my park and see to the farms and live the Kfe cf a country gentleman just in the way you think you'd like. But I tired of it.’ Cortolvin clutched at the white rail of the bi os ” he cried, “Dead! Julia dead! 1s that all, captein?™ “It was only a two-line paragraph. You'll please understand how scrry I am to carry such sad news, Mr. Cortolvin.” “Thanks, r, thanks.” He .turned away and walked to the end of the bridge and stayed there for a while, leaning against an awning stanchion, a-staring at the baking levels of the Red sea, which were slipping past the Saigon’s rusty flanks. And then he came back again and stood at Kettle’s side, looking down at the pilgrims anointing the scalds below. “I have learn- ed to be something of a fatalist, captain, he said, “‘when I was amongst those people. This is how I sum the situation. ‘It was written that my wife should die whilst I It was written also that I God ordered it all. God is Kettle gripped his hand in sym- “I'm sorry for you, sir; believe me, i am truly sorry. If you think a bit of Poetry about the occasion would help you at all, just you say, and I'll do it. I'm in the mood for poetry now. Ail things put together, we've been through a pretty heavy time during these last few hours.’ “Thanks, skipper, thanks,” said Cortol- vin. “I know you mean well. And now, if you don’t mind, I'll leave you. I think Td like to be alone for a bit.” “You do, sir. Go and Me down on my bunk. I'll have you a beautiful elegy writ- ten by the time you're back on deck again. It will comfort yo ———— Vessels With Names Ending in “A.” From the Philadelphia Record. 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For Souvenir Booklets of Summer Resorts and Permanent hotels below call at or address (send stamp) THE CLAQUE OF PARIS How Productions in the Theaters Are Applauded Into Successes, A DOCUMENT OF INSTRUCTIONS The Chef of the Claquers and His Assistants at Work. erheps you have no wife, sir,” sug- ested the sailor. wills guest gave a short la yh, Lord, yes,” he said, “I've a wif le paused a minute and then threw his _half-smoked 4 an; E. P., Buropean.) Hotel Keomore, AP. $4 THE CABALE; ITS METHODS a ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, August 10, 1897. A few days ago en acquaintance handed me a curious document of which very few copies ever find their way to the public. It was a card of instructions for the use of the claque at the Grand Opera, upon the occasion of a production of “Faust,” and indicating to them at what points they ~ were to applaud and what manner of ap- me me Spee plause It was to be. @o.(St.Pancras), Midland Grand. A. ‘This is how the card reads: o. Tha ‘s HotelTemp).op. British Muscum First act (end of monologue)—When Faust LONDON, Bug. DeVere Hotel) DeVere Ganieus exclaims “God” for the third time, slight] 2. fossa ced dened applause. Second act—At the exit of Faust and Mephistopheles, slight applause. Third act—After the Cavatina, shouts of “bravo.” Fourth act—After the duet of Faust and Marguerite, slight applause. After each act loud cries, “Encore.” Marguerite: Second act—After her grand air, shouts “bravo” continuous. Third act—During her waltz song, after the trill, unstinted applause, long con- tinued, loud. Third act—After the Etoiles,” great applause. Fourth act—After the scene church, ordinary applause. After third, fourth and fifth acts, loud calls “Encore.” It was elevating chartered applause to an art, and I was prompted to seek the best authority on theatrical matters in Paris to learn more of this recognized function in every play house but one in the city. That one is the Renaissance Theater, tne scene of Sarah Bernhardt’s appearances and the house selected by Charles Froh- man for his presentation of “Secret Service” in French next winter. The divine Sarah $4 P..$3.50.2P_Slup BRISTOL, B. olf Toa, now epen BROOKLYN, N.¥.Hotel St George, E.P.$1; APS CINCINNATI, 0. nd Hotel, EP, $1; AP. James Hotel, A.P., $2.50 up -Hosel Windsor, A.P., $2 to $3.50 i Clarence Hotel, AP., $3 Mass. Berkshire Inn, AP, $3 up KANSAS CITY,Mo.TheMidiand, E. 0:EP.$iup EP., $2 up where. The hadji laughed. “I'm afraid that neither I nor any of my people have been nsonQuinn) Ht! (Wm. No @o.Gth av.&15th Sis: -The Rutland, Superior apartments, $1 PHILADELPHIA, Pa..New Walton He do. The Aldine Hotel, A.P., $3.50 @o(Restaurant EP Sop do. . (Arch mpire, EP $1: APS le) Hotel Gren EP_$1.50 up snsington. 5. P “Romance aux at the aten Island. -Lindell 1 -Arlington Ho The Raleigh, E. my16,20,23,27thenstf being impressed by the heathen’s con- stancy. They might die, but they forbore to curse God in doing it, and the omission gave him an insight into the workings of fatalism, which made him think more of what Cortolvin had said. Every man among the pilgrims had sword or spear or mace or rifle within grip of his fist, and as a fighting force—with fatalism to back them—he began to realize that they could make a very ugly company to maneuver against. A regulation of the pilgrim trade requires that all weapons shall be taken from this class of passengers during the voyage, but Kettle had omitted to disarm them through sheer contempt for what they could do. If they chose to fight among themselves, that was their own concern; it never even occurred to him as they came off Jeddah quay, noisy and odorous, that they wouid dare to contend against his im- perial will, but now he sincerely wished that the means of ser:ous offense were not so handy to their fingers. I do not say that he was afraid, for, knowing him well, I honestly believe that the little ruffian has never yet feared man that was born of woman, but the safety of the Saigon was a matter just then very near to his heart, and he had forebodings as to what might happen to her. He went back again inside the chart- house, sat himself upon thé-sofa, and ran a finger round inside the collar of his white drill coat. “Do you like cheroots, sir?” his tattered guest. “Nice cheroots,” said Cortolvin. ‘“‘Won- der how many I'll smoke. Those True Be- lievers are a pretty tough crowd, aren't they? There’s one Soudanese fellow in a Darfur suit of mail. Did you notice him? He's been a big war she'k in his day. He helped to smash up Hicks Pasha’s army, and commanded a thousand men at the storming of Khartoum; but he got sick of Mahdtisni about a year back, and set out to perform the Hadj. When it comes to fighting you'll see that man will shine.” “He shall have my first shot,” said Ket- tle. “It surprises me,” said Cortolvin, “that you ever went in for this pilgrim-carrying business at all. You must have been pretty hard pushed, captain?" “Hard wasn’t the word for it.” said the shipmaster with a sigh. “I met misfor- tune, sir, in Chile. I disagreed with my er, who was a lady, and went off ig in a boat by myself. A tea steam- er picked me up and put me in Columbo. .I got from there to Bombay as second mate he said to of a tramp, but I couldn't stand the old} man’s tongue, and went ashore without my wages. I guess, sir, I'm no good except in command: I can’t take an order civilly. Well, in Bombay fd a regular nipgut time of it. I bummed round the agents’ offices till I almost blushed to look at their pun- kah coolies; but I'd no papers to show that would do me any good: and none of them would give me a ship the sizc of a rice mat. At last when I was getting desperate, and pretty near put to going to sea before the mast, the lodging and gave me a tip. He'd been master of a country steamer: he'd been sacked (he didn’t deny it) for drunkenness; he'd not drawn a sober breath for months. and didn’t sce any prospect of c $ abits; and there was the berth va aon might have it for the ae ee “The pay Wween’t much, on’ 2 month percentage "on Sagi? and the owner was a Parsee. I'd never been low enough down to sign on under a black man befcre, but I guess I was past being very rice in my tastes Just then. The cwner was fat and oldish, and wore But he knew his he sahibed me quite respectfully: and he said he'd be honored if I'd take hie steemer under my charge. ‘She was all he'd got,” he said; ‘he loved her like his life, and he'd not trust her to any one ex. cept a pukka sahib.” Of course, he led a cod deal; all natives do that: and he fixed up our bargain so that I'd little to win and he'd a good deal; which is those Parsees’ way. But I will ‘say he was always moat rcepectful, and in the matter of vietualing me he really surprised me. Why, he actually put Bass" ale on bo: actually, pu ard at 4 annas “We cleared from Bombay in corn and cottons and earthenware consigned to Jed- dah, and the owner told me I'd have no trouble in getting a cargo of dates and coffee to bring back. But the Jeddah men chants seemed to think different. I cut dewn freights to near vanishing point, but they wouldn't Icck at them anyhow. I couldn’t get a ton of cargo on board for any spot on the glohe; no, rot if T offered to carry it for nothing. The Saigon misht have swung there at moorings till the bot tom rotted out of her; and expenses were running up all the time. The climate was sickly, ‘too. I lost my serang before I'd been there a week, and two more of the coolies died in the next ten days. So when this cargo of pilgrims offered, I tell you just jumped at it. Of course, this old Wreck was not fitted for the trade. She's small; she’s fron decks; she's only two boats, and she’s not near enough water tanks. There'd be big penalties if she was caught. But I shipped a second rice steam. | er and signed the charter party, smiling. It wasn't as if I'd got to go through the Diteh to one of the Morocco ports; the pilgrims had only to be taken across to Kosseir; and squaring an Egyptian custom officer is only a case of how much back- shish.” “You do know your trade,” said Cor- toivin. = “The under side of it,” said Kettle, with a sigh. “A man with luck Ike mine has to. He never gets on with the decent lines where everything is square and above board. He can only get the little and cor- rer owners, who you've got to make div- idends for somehow and no questions ask- ed, or else just up and take the dirty sack. I'm a man,” he added, with a frown, “that can do the job well, and they know it. and keep me to it. But I despise myself all the time. It isn’t in my nature, Mr. Cor- tolvin. Put me ashore, give me u farm. and let me bend yellow gaiters and a large pattern coat, and there wouldn't be a straighter, sweeter-natured man between here and heaven.” den The hadji swept the perspiration from a Cardiff man I once knew came to | POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. will tolerate no such deception as a paid, | ———— = n feat cut-and-dried claque; she Joes not have to, RIVER LANDID but others less confident of the public are te rejoiced to make use of this phantom of Pepular approval, this rented clamor that they deceive themselves even into bellev- ing is the voice of the people. The Chef of the Claque. The chef of the claque at the Grand Opera is a man of intelligence, and under- stands the entire repertoire that house is accustomed to present to its patrons. He said to me: “The chef of claque is a regu- Jar attache to the administration of the theater. He answers the purpose of the press agent you have in your country, and answers it much more effectively, I think. In ordinary theaters the chef is paid a small salary and given a certain number of tickets and seats for each performance ~the sale of those tickets is his perquisite. In more important theaters, the chef re- ceives a higher salary and also the seats. He is generally given from twenty to forty seats, according to the character of the production. If he sells those seats, of course at a reduced price, he does so only to those who make a solemn agreement to keep their eyes on him and follow his lead in the applause. Sometimes cards are given 4s the one you have seen, instructing each claquer when to applaud, but as a rule they must watch the chef and takg their cue from him. Utility of the Claque. “That is the reason the claque ts general- to give it them. In answer to his whistle, steam had been turned on from below. The second en- gineer unhitched his thumbs from his waist belt, took a lump of waste in each grimy hand and lifted the iron pipe. It was well jointed and moved easily, and he turned the nozzle of it to sweep the lad- der. In that baking air the steam did not condense readily; it traveled three yards from the nozzle of the: pipe before it be- came even thinly visible, and it infringed upon the black, naked bodies and burned horribly without being seen. At first they did not flinch. With & dreadful valor they faced the torment and fought with each other to be first upon the rungs, and then, * when those in front would have held i the mob behind pressed them irresistibly gpward. In a mo- rent or so the first ramvk began to go down before that withering blast, and then oth- ers trod on them and/fell also, till the hill of writhing black humanity grew to half the height of the iron ladder. And in the meantime-others of the pilgrims were try- ing to storm the bajdg@ deck at other points,.but ou the pord/sid’, the gray-head- ed old mate fighting baresark with an ax, and to starbeard Capt. Npttte ‘with pistol and knuckle duster, Ratt Pd ifke wild cats to keep the sacred-planking inviolate. What was going on at the after end of the Satgon they could not tell. From be- hind them came:thevroz® of the fighting Hausa, and the save ‘War cries of the desert just as they fos “up from before their faces. But in ifs first fush the fight was too close fer any munts thoughts to -oo___ The Largest Crane. From the Los Angeles Times. Absolutely the greatest mechanical giant in the world ts now lifting stone on a new sea wall on the north coast of Scotland. Not even the monster cranes used for lift- ing the governmental great guns can com- pare with this Titan, as it is called. It is capable of lifting 100 tons, and it could pick up a modern locomotive with as much ease as the game locomotive draws a train of cars. It could lift the cubic contents of 100 carloads and strew them over a wide section of the landscape. Its daily work is the placing in position of fifty-ton blocks of granite, of which the new sea wall at Peterhead is being built. The length of its arms, reaching out from the central point of support, is exactly 100 feet, and it can set a sixty-ton block in the sea 100 feet deep and 72 ie from the i celebrated enough to have ccme into pub- lic notice, skipper. But we had a name- seke some years back who was famous. A horse named Cortolvin won the Grand National in ‘67. That's what you have got on your mind.” Capt. Kettle stiffened. “I beg your par- don, sir,” he said with acid politeness, “but I don’t see you've earned a right to insult me. When I am at sea, I am what circum- ; Stances make me. When I afm ashore in England, I would have you know, I am a very different person. I am a regular at- tender at chapel, and a man who (outside | stratgne, matters) tries to keep entirely Co and Nomini € arrive at Washington Supdays alout 4 p.m On Wed) above landings, including nd Cobrun’s. Returning, ok. m Tuesday turning, arrive at’ Washington carly on day and Friday mornings. ‘On Saturdays, 6 p.m., for Riverside, Colonial wh, Colton's, Piney Point. St. Wee's Island, Smith Creek. Coan and Yeocomico rivers, and ar- rives at Washington Sundays about 1 pin. “sce schedule,” in effect June 28. C. W. RIDLEY, General Manager. este E_S. RANDALL'S POTOMAC RIVER LINE. Steamer HARRY RANDALL will irae View wharf Sunda; od 7 straight. In England, sir, I take an in- terest in neither pocket picking, horse rac- ing, nor sacrilege; and I have it on the ¥ord of a minister I sit under that there is very little to choose between the three.” Cortolvin faced the situation with ready tact. That this truculent little ruffian, who could flirt with homicide without a second thought, should so strongly resent the im- putation of being interested in a horse race, | €id not surprise him much. He had met rs of the breed before. And he smooth- ed down Capt. Kettle’s ruffled feelings with the easy glibness of a man of the world. But the needs of the moment were again recurring to him with violence, and he broke off artistically to refer to them. “Don't you think,” he said,-“‘my fellow pilgrims will bear a little attention now, skipper?” ‘I wil] be off and make up a bit of a sur- prise packet for them,” sald Kettle. “Ex- evse me, sir, for two minutes whilst I go far down as Nomini x. and Wednesdays at 9 p.m. m. p.m. accommodations fret-class. Freight re- the hour of sail E. S. RANDALL Proprietor aud Manager. GEO. 0. CARPINTER. General Agent, Washin: je2v-t4t? WM. M. REARDON. Agent, THE WEEMS STEAMBOAT 60. Sommer echednle tn effect June 1. STEAMERS POTOMAC 1 Stearer Potomac will leave Surday xt 4 p.m. for Steamer Sue willl for river landings Gwith's creck) mad Passenger weight arm ceived urtil that carries the engine house, with the machinery for moving the Titan forward or backward on a railroad set into the finished masonry, and to run out or fn cn the long arm a traveling car from which are suspended the four-sheaved blocks. through which is received the cable that Lifts the great pieces of stone. The Titan itself weighs 700 tons, and is built of steel. The long arm swings about on a turn-table, just as a bridge swings over a river. ‘The wall which it builds and then travels over : rt every nd river Jandinss. cx an@ give instructions to my chief.” And | Wander from his own: immfediat - * ly concentrated, mostly in the upper gal-| “Passenger accou medations strictly first-class, he swung on his pith helmet and left the'| sorles. preps sever Bo tect mike nT vances into the wea is nearly |'1exy, with a few on each side of the lower | All river freight must he crepe a age chart housé, It seemed, howevér that’ the ‘battle was coe or first gallery. The chief is then in a seat | ,omce, 910 Pa. ave. Telephone 745. felt — over first in thé after part of the steamer, a = = in the front row of the first gallery, and the entire claque can see him. As co the utility of a claque, I certainty believe in it. My idea is that the public is often modest and hesitates in. beginning the applause that Some really deserving artist is entitled to, but when some one whe is familiar with the play and realizes how well the part was acted gives the signal by applauding, the hesitating public is encouraged and gives expression to its feelings heartily. Besides this, it helps the artist, and he or she realizes the audience is interested.” A fact the chef neglected to state, but a fact nevertheless, is that those making their debut present to the chef a sum of money from 200 to francs in amount ($30 to $40) that the claque may make an uproar at every entrance and exit of the debutante. In many instarces the claque has injured rather than aided the artist by applauding at the wrong moment, by break- ing into the middle of a solo or otherwise making a contretemps. It is stated that a well-known tenor in Paris always gives the chef a hundred franes every night he sings, in order to insure a continuation of his success, even though he has attained it. ‘The author of the new play is also ex- pected to contribute, and his portion varies from a hundred to a thousand francs, ac- cording to the cénsequence of the produc- tion and the uncertainty of its success. In acdition to this the author usually buys ; twenty or thirty seats and presents them to the chef in order to augment his force and bring so many more hands and lungs in play. The Artists Are Willing. Nor are these payments made unwillingly; for when recently the suppression of the claque was seriously considered at the Cpera the artists threatened to strike if the applause they felt confident of receiv- mee Srienst could rely upon was withdrawn. emphatic w: of the artists that es ane litoer bee claque is assured for another decade with- out question. - Claquer a: Critic. A humorous bit of audacity on the part of a- well-known chef of claque named Girard ts much joked about. He wrote the editor-in-chief of one of the leading papers asking from him the post - matic editor, on the ground that the then incumbent told the truth about the actors, which was not agreeable, and jn explain. teeied ool he ee afford to perform the aut of dramatic edit: figure, said: “I make Sahar Haont * The Calf Path. From the Buffalo Express. One day through the primeval “wood, A calf walked home, as good calves’ should; But made a trail ali bent askew, A crooked trail, as all calves do. Since then two bundred years have fed, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still be left behind his trail, And thereby hangs a iortal, tale, ‘The trail was taken up next day, By a lone dog that passed that way, And then a wise bell-weather sheep, Pursued the trail, o'er yale and steep, And drew the flock behind him, too, As rood bell-weathers always’ do. And from that day, o’er hill and glade, Thrcugh those old woods a path was ihade, many men wourd in and out, And dodged and turned and bent about, And uttered words of righteous wrath, use "twas such a c1 path; But still they followed—do not laugh— ‘The first migration of that calf. And through this winding wocdwa) Because he wabbled when he. w: ‘This forest path ea That bent and turned and turned again, ais crooked lane Became a road. | Where many a poor horse, wit load, Tolled on beneath the burning sun, And traveled some three miles in’ one, And thus a century and a half, and whether, this .wag;because the attack there was lesg.heartful,’or because Mr. McTodd’s artillery! was the more terrible, cannot now be known. | Thé question was debated) much“ afterward . without coming to a decision. But any ‘way, by the time Captain Kettle’s adversaries -had ceased to rage against him, Cortolvim was free to come and stand by his side as interpreter. The wounded lay sprawling and writhing about the iron decks below them; the sur- vivors—and scarcely one of these was with- out his scald—huddled against the fore- castle; and the grimy second engineer held the steam pipe upward so that a gray pall hung between the Saigon and the sua. “Now, sir,” said Kettle, “kindly trans- late for me. Tell those animals to chuck all their hardware over the side, or I'll cook the whole lot of them like so many sausages.” Cortolvin lifted up his voice in sonorous Arabic “It was written,” he cried, “that the gailour should prevail. It is written also that those among you having wit shall cast your weapons itito the sea. It is writ- ten, moreover, that those of you who do not on this instant disarm shall taste again of the scorching breath.of Elbis." * A stream of weapons leaped up through the air, and fell into the swells alongside with tinkling splashes. “It would be a weariness to guard you,” Cortolvin went on. “Swear by the beard of the prophet to make no further at- tempt against this ship or we shall gaol you fast in death.” ~ A forest of trembling black hands shot up before him. “We swear!” they cried. “Then it is written that you keep your vow,” said Cortolvin. “God is great! See now to your sick.” He turned to Kettle, and touched his ragged turban, after the manner of an officer reporting, “The mu- tiny fs ended, sir,” he said. Captain Kettle swung himself lightly on to the upper bridge and telegraphed “full speed ahead” to the engine room. The pro- peller splashed in the oily swells, and the Saigon gathered weigh. Sullen and tremb- ling, the pilgrims began to tend their hurts, and presently McTodd, with a large cop- per kettle in his hand, descended among them and distributed oil and surgical ad- vice. “There were none actually killed at my end,” said Corto}v: ‘I dropped four,” said Kettle. “I had to. It was either me or them. And my old mate axed half a dozen before they let him be. We'd a tight time here whilst it lasted.” “It will require a good lump of bach- shish to explain it all satisfactorily at Kos- seir.” ‘O, I can’t go near there now after this. No custom house for me, sir. I shall just run in pegs a@ dozen miles sot A a and put the: begg: is beach in boats, and let perm Pe fiscs Kosseir as best they can. I suppose_you'll come back with me.” —— z. so. Anyway I can’t go on with them. mn “I can imagine,” said Kettle drily, “‘they’d give you @ lively ting} if they had you to themselves for ‘five inutes. The Sons of the Prophet don’t admire having Eu- ropeans messing about the Kaaba. But I owe you. something, sig [end I shall be happy to go out of why. Way to servé you. I will drop you at Suakim, or at Aden. or at Perim, where I am-going to coal, which- ever you please. = AS “But what about yourself?” “Oh, I shall be all right. Iam seldom in I The sun climbed higher into the fleckless sky, and lolled above the Saigon in insolent cruelty. The Red sea heat grew if any- thing yet more dreadful. The men’s veins stood out in ropes upon their streaming bodies, and it scorched them to draw in a breath. Drink, too, was scarce. The Hedaz is a region almost waterless; the desert at the back drains up all the moisture; and the Saigon had left Jeddah with her tanks only half filled. She had to depend upon her condenser, and this was small. And in the tropics, condenser water must be dealt out in a sparing ration, or a dozen hours may easily see a whole ship's company down with raging dysentery. The Saigon carried a spar deck amidships, and the pilgrims were grouped in two bodies fore and aft of this on the iron plat- | ing of the fore and main decks. The spar deck was officially reached from these lower levels by a couple of slender iron ladders, but it was not unscalable to a fairly active climber. There was an alley- way passing beneath the spar deck, but this could easily be closed by the iron doors in the two bulkheads, which fastened inside with heavy clamping screws. The chief engineer came into the chart house and hitched up his grimy pajamas nd mopped his face with & wad of cotton He looked meaningly at the whisky bottle, but Kettle ignored his glance. “Well, Mr. McTodd?” he said. “I’m a’ ready for the pagans, sir, when ye'’re willing to gi’ the worrd.” “What are your engines like now?” “A wee bittie less fit for the scrap heap than they were a dozen hours back, but no very much to boast of,” Mr. McTodd spat out into the sunshine. “They’: the rot- tenist engines ever I fingered,” said he, “and that’s what I think of them. A man ought to have double my pay to be near them. They’re just heartbreaking. “You knew she wasn’t the P. and O. when you signed on.” “We're neither of us here, Capt. Kettle, because we were offered fatter berths.’ Kettle frowned. “I'll trouble you, Mr. McTodd, to attend to the matter in hand. You have those steam pipes ranged?” “Both forrard and aft.”” “Commanding both ladders?” “Just like that “And you've plenty of steam?” “Ye can hear it burring through the cs- cape this minute if ye’ll use your ears. It’s been vara exhausting work toiling down yonder in that a’ful heat.” = “Well, Mr. Cortolyin here assures me that the niggers will begin to play up the min- ute we get under weigh, sa you see we know where we are, and must be ready for them. I shall want you and the sex engineer on deck, of course, so you must arrange for one of your crew to run the engines till we’ve got the business settled.' “I've a greaser down yonder who can open the throttle,” said McTodd gloomily, “but he’s got no notion of nursing sick en- eines like these, and as like as not he'll rive them off their bed plates in a score of revo- lutions. Ye'd better let me keep the engine room mysel’, captain. I’m a sick man, and I'm no fit for fighting with my throat as dry as it is now.” Capt. Kettle poured out a liberal two fingers of whisky and handed it across: “Now, Mac,” said he, “wet your neck, and jet’s have no more of this nonsense. You'll have to fight for your life inside of ten minutes, and you'll do it better sober.” ‘The engineer eyed the whisky and poured -| i pn! down its appointed path. “Mon, he sal OCEAN TRAVEL. American Line. 1) am Paris. .... Oc Star Lin NEW YORK TO ANTWEI NOORDLAND. TO) WESTERNLAND. x INTERNATIONAL NAVIG2 Piers 14 and 15, North Rive ee 5° wh22-6m 921 ‘Penn. ave. OLLANO-AMERICA Li From New York to Retterdam and Amesierd stalked inforn ation apply to Broadway, New York ‘The road became a village street, And this, before the mea were aware, A city’s ‘crowded throughfare, And soon the central street was this, Of a renowned metropolis. And men two centuries and a half, ‘Trod in the footst Sax Pak ‘A bundred thousand men were led By <ne calf near three centuries dead . Doolittie’s Joke on Fessenden. From the Boston Herald. The old senator was a great story teller and related many interesting and humor- ous accounts of what he had seen in public life. One of his favorite stories was at the expense of Senator Fessenden, a warm personal friend. The judge and Senator Fessenden had been appointed on a com- mission, with several others, to treat with the various chiefs of the Sioux nation on an important Indian question of the day. It was long before railways had been in- troduced into the far west, and the mem- bers of the commission had to travel on horseback. Judge Doolittle was chairman of the commission, but at the conference lor ~t shifted that duty to the shoulders of Sen- in my bi considerable profit Stor Fessenden. The latter was highly |'"~rst By selling’ theater tickets that 1 pleased at the honor conferred on him and |receiye for 20 francs and dispose of for much “puffed, up” in consequence. The | 150 francs. judge had method in his mi how-|' “Second. By the applause, bravos, etc., first presentations and de- French Line. CCMPAGNIB GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQ: & DIRECT LIXE TO PARIS, FRANCE, VIA HAVRE. La Champagne, Poirot La Tesraiee, Gastelll. La Bretagne, Rupe. < RATES OF PASSAGE First-ciess, New’ York to Paris, $105 and upward by all steamers exespt La ‘Touraine, including railway fare to Parts and land- ing charges. Parlor car seat is extra during sui mer season Second-class to Paris. $54.75. A. Fv GET, General Agent, Gereral Office, No. 3 Bowling Green. N.Y J. W. MOSS, $21 Penn ave., Washing- ton, D.C. galy-ty Their methods were not altogether gentle, and after a number of them had been locked up for conduct unbecoming genile- men and members of the profession the f dustry sickened and died. One of their methods was to discharge a pistol several times at an exciting momeat of the play, and frighten the audience and distract its attention so that the entire fect would be lost. Another was to applaud at the wrong place, laugh boisterously at pathetic portions and weep copiously where the play or the player was supposed to be irresistibly funny. They would way- lay the actors’ and actresses, knock them down, tear their clothing, frequently would tie them to trees where they might remain until it was too late for their appearance on the stage. But the greatest achievement of the c: bale, and showing that peaceful meth have their victories as well as those of vio- lence, was on the occasion of the first duction of a grand piece that a rival particularly to defeat. The cabale, . house was oey 3 ene a el preparation that he had, and w! burning made an odor so intolerably that women fainted, and there stampede of audience and artists alike the streets. —__-——_—. A Genuine Receiver. From the Atlanta Constitution. “The hotel,” explained the clerk, “is in the hands of a receiver.” ‘ ‘Where can I find him?” “Well, an hour ago he was receiving breakfast; shortly afterward he received three cocktails, and in about ten minutes he'll be here to roceive his salary. Take « chair!” : ++ - Maré Hearted. ‘From the Indineapelis Journal. “What have you been doing al! moruing. dear?” ry gocking the bat. I wen wasn’ a cherries.’ ee met eocteeC peeraoe SAS that I sell for ception tende: y e to e | buts, and sometim accordin; spokesman of any party of visiting whites. ligencies of the case Sy A edicod At the appointed time the two parties | formances.” to the conferehce congregated. There were Returning to this bty 200 Indian chiefs present with!in connecticn with the letter of Girard, their wives. Senator den advanced |authors pay stated and fixed sums each to do the honors for tne commissioners, | week for applauding certain sentiments in When, to his dismay, the whole body of | the lines, and in the other ways evidencit.¢ Ine juaws and all—advanced and, | public approval of the moral and literary after embracing the chairman, gave him,|yalue of the Production, they also pay gecording to their custom, a welcoming |for applauding certain characters consid. kiss. Judge Doolittle often said he thought | erea by them the strongest from a play- that Fessenden never quite forgave him for the trick. standpoint, regardless of who subject of recompense and then paid 15 louis to an outside chef whom he Ty co-thier Seem brought in and provided with seats in or- d, — ve - Ger that the success of his plece might be possibly ‘ give yon beyond 5 coolie greaser instructions, and get my A well-known actress here presented the side arms and be with you again in forty chef of the theater where she gencrally clock ticks.” appears with a valuable pin, “I pity the nigger that comes to hand while another gave him an expensive gold | grips with McTodd,” said Kettle, when the watch, mounted in brilliants; while a very grimy man in the gray pajamas had left. beaut woman, — most beautiful in wing mo! vile a inte the chart house. He's an ugly beggar to handle when he’s sober as he is now. We'll get ready now, sir, if you please. You to the after end of the then where I'd seen your It was in the Times of year ago?” cap’n, but de ship was, to “Well, the ship is going to China now, ” ¥ but I’se married now,” “when 1 stoning é = *aatame