Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1898, Page 16

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1898-24 PAGES. CAPT, DICK AND CAPT. JACKA, ae ) Reported Tale of Two Frigates and Two Luggars. Re pear utien WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY A T. QUILLER COUCH. , Copyright, 1888, by ALT. Quiller Conch. t cay you've never heard tell of my , trowbies assail * * *;" and the very night a r 2 dfather, Capt. John T bird — | before sailing, as they sat quiet, one ea peut tete: Se ated. | “ide of the hearth, he made the old wom: and | 4 seizure n earnest Methody der a the truth, he wi ™ to look at. being bald as a coot and blind of one evs, hesides other defec His mother let run too seon, aad thet m is legs be And then a bee stung him J all his hair came off. And his eye he n a little job with the preventive men. but his Hd @roeped so you'd hardly know “twas missi He'd a way, too, of talking to himself he went along. that folks reekoned him silly. It was queer | how that maggot k in their heads; for sink ra Guernsey ear- un it straight—there wasn Polperre. The very Fm telling of the year “five, when the most of the business uperre—free trade | und privateering—was | managed. asthe | werld knows, by Mr. Zephaniah Job. This J © came from St. Ann’s—by reason of | & shied some pe ms child out of f temper—and opened where he taught rule 1; ulso navigation, bout it on paper. -ountant to igent fe merchants: and at last blossomed red a bank with £1 and £ notes ger ones which he drew on Chris- | Pe di mensuratic only Knew panies Smith jerman of London. In avs g Was so sear that the Jews were buyin us for 27 shil | collecting t for | ern to send t You | wouldn't see a geld pie Tro not \ this Job was agent for a company called the “Pride o' the ordercd « new lugger to be r town at Mevagissey. She i Unity. 160 tons (that would | is they measure now), n curriage guns and carry ce and confortable. She to launch, rn Ja to and have a look at Punch, of fe up his mind he ng that, first and he bad cleared ry company 0 . Was pleased as th = sok thorough stock new craft, and Jaeka praised this and carried on quite s 1in's erders inside his 4 he usually carried them Job d sidelong down his j jump by saying all of a sudden, “Coals o° se—he was a leegy old galliganter with Stiverish gray hair and a jawbone long e make n Jacka a new pair of shins—and said What dovee think of | said Jacka, “any fool can see she'll run, and any fool can See she'll reach L reckon shell come as fast as th’ } Nd Pride, and if sit nigher the | w i th nue cutter itll be | your sa 1 cport.” said Mr Job. “I offering you the Li Cay fa iden, Aw be skipper. pa Jacka again, and shut Young Dick Hewitt's | es in the company and think?" asked Mr. Job, my wife's | sul | opin- | told it all to} doted on like 1 sma She was When w thar Th exsail and dun. right, It should fail and all unite Yet one thing assures us. whatever betide, fimst in gers the Lord will provide: “BY SEVEN O'CLOCK of “Or, A Pass By,” and the very ext morning Cap'n Jac walked down and toid Mr. Job he was ready to go for mate er young Dick Hewitt a the next week or two, pentiag: for Cap'n Dick his promotion, especi- nards; and when the ame ad was fitting—very too, by reason of th her let marque—he or apn Jacka nd fo like a stevedore’s dog. There was to be no lugger" —that the nigh enou! on this was sort of talk; and oil and rotten stone for the very gunswiv« But Jacka knew the fellow, and even mired the gi re and its loud ways “He's a cap'n. 1 his wife twonet be t ball” he's seen him h. the G ent unde “kin.” Mrs. Tackabird sald nothing. She busy making s and setting down a stug of butter for her man’s use on the Yovage. But he knew she would be a dis- appoinicd woman ff he didn’t contrive in Some honest way to turn the tables on the company and their new pet. For days to- Gether he went about whistling “Tho' *Probably “Olney."* ft What dee mean by that?” she asked. thin’. I was thinkin’ to myself, and out it popped.” “Well, ‘tis like 1 providence. For, till you said that, ld clean forgot the sifter for your cuddy fire. Mustn’t waste cinders that you're only a mate.” ing a woman, She couldn't forego that little dig; but she got up there and then and gave the old boy a kiss. wouldn't walk down to the quay, . next day, to see him off, being cer- said) to lose her temper at the sight of Capt. Dick carrying on as big bull's beef, not to mention they sneering shareholders and their wives. So Capt. Jacka took.his congees at his own door and turned halfway down the street and waved a good-bye with the cinder sifter. She used to say afterward that this was providence, too. The Unity ran straight across until she made Ushant light, and, after cruising about for a couple of days in moderate weather (it being the first week in April, Capt. Dick laid her head east and began to | nose up channel, Keeping an easy little dis- tance off the French coast. You see, the “A HEAP OF CINDERS GOT channel was full of our shfps and neutrals in those Ss. Which made fat work for the French privateers; but the Frenchies’ own Vessels kept close over on their coast, and even so the best our boys couid expect, nine times out of ten when they'd crossed ever. was to run against a chasse-maree dodging between Cherbourg and St. Malo or Morlaix with naval stores or munitions of war. However, Capt. Dick had very good luck. morning, about three league iW; of ff, what should he see but a French privateering craft of about fifty tons (new Measurement) with an English trader in tow—a Loudon brig, with a eargo of all that had fallen behind her convoy and been snapped up in mid-channcl. Capt Dick had the weather gauge, as well as the gs of the French chasse-maree. She was about a league to leeward when the morn- ing lifted ard he first spied her. By 7 o'clock he was close, and by 8 had made himself master of her id the prize, the loss of two men only four wou sorts, ed. the Frenchman being short-handed, by reason of the crew he'd put into the brig to work her into Me This was first To begin with, the brig (she was called the Mar- tha Edwards of London), would yield a Udy itl: sum fcr salvage. The wind being fair | for Plymouth, Captain Dick sent her into that port—her own captain and crew work- in of course, and thirty Frenchmen | on beard in irens. And at Plymouth she | arrived without any mishap i} Then came the chasse-maree. She was | called the Bean Pheasant,* an old craft | nd powerful leaky, but she mounted six- | teen guns, the same as the Unity, and | cught to have made a better run from her; | she hadn't been able make her | esert her prize pretty well within port; and in the second place her ‘a fair job to keep her pumps going. Captain Dick considered, and then turned to old Jacks I'm thinking.” said he. “I'l have to put you aboard with @ prize crew to work her back to Polperro.” ne Lord will aid Jaeka, hough he had look © a little more the fun. aboard he went rot forgett stug of bu with ig his wife's roe 1 his belong- Sausages and the cinder sifter. ‘oward the ond of the action about fifteen of the Johnnies had got out the brig’s large boat and pulled her ashore, where, 10 doubt, they reached safe and sound. S$ Jacka hadn't more | than a dozen prison HE WAS cCLOosE— to look after, little homeward tri “Il just cruise between this and Jersey,” said Cap'n Dick; “and at the week end, if there's nothing - home and resii So they part ) Cap'n Jacka had laid the Bean Pheasant’s head nerth- and-by-west, and was reaching along nice- y for home. with a stiff breeze, and noth- ing to do but keep the pumps going and at- tend to his eating and drinking between whiles, The prize made a good deal of water, but was a weather! ft for all that, and on this point of Sailing shipped nothing rut what she took in through her seams: tae worst of the mischief being forward. where her stem had worked a bit loose with age and started the bends. Cap'n Jacka, how- ever, thought less of the sea—that was working up into a nasty lop—than of the weather, which turned thick and hazy as the wind veered a little to west of south. But even this didn’t trouble him much. He had sausages for breakfast and sausages for dinner, and, as evening drew on, and he Knew he was well on the right side of the channel, he knocked out his pipe and *Probably ““Blenfaisent.”” AWASH, began to think of sausages for t: Just then one of the hands forwird crop- ped pumping, ind sang out tht there was a big sail on the starboard how. “I bilieve a frigate, sir,” he said, spying between hands. So it was. She had sprung on them out of the thick weather. But now Cap'n Jacka could see the white line on her :nd the ports quite plain, and not two miles away. “What nation?” he bawled. K “I can’t make out, carries flag—losh me! If there bain't another! Sure as I'm telling you, another frigate there was, likewise standing down toward them under easy canvas, on the same starboard tack, a mile astern, but we ndward of the first. Whatever they be, said Captain tick: “they're bound to head us off, and they bound to hail us. I go get my-tea,” he “for if they're Frenchmen, ‘tis my meal for months to com=.”* So he fetehed out his frying and plenty sausages and fried away for dear pan life—with butter, too, which was ruinous waste. He shared round the sausages, two to each man, and kept the Bean Pheasant to her course until the leading frigate fired a shot across her bows, and ran up the . White and blue; and then, knowing the worst, he rounded to as meek as a lamb. ‘The long and short of it was that, inside the hoar, the dozen Frenchmen were frec, and Captain Jacka and his men in their piace, ironed hand and foot, and the Bean Pheasant working back to France again with a young gentleman of the French navy aboard in command of her. But ‘tis better be lucky born, they say. than a rich man’s son. By this time it was blowing pretty well half a gale from sou ou = wi and before midnight a proper gale. The Bean Pheasant being kept head to sea, took it smack-and-smack on the breastbone, which w: Kkiest spot, and soon, being down b; head, made shocking weather of it. the "Twas next door to impossible to work the pump for ward. Toward 1 in the morning old Jacka was rolling about up to his waist as he sat, and trying to comfort himself by singing “Tho’ ‘troubles assail,”” when the young French gentleman came running with ore of his Johnnies and knocked the irons off the English boys and told them to be brisk and help work the pumps, or the lugger— that was already hove to—would go down under them. “But where be you going?” he sings out —or French to that effect.’ For Jacka was moving aft toward the cuddy there. Jacka fetched up his best smugel SIR, French and answered: “This here lugger is going down. Any fool can see thai, as you're handling her. And ['m going down on_a full stomac! With that the reached an arm into the where he'd stacked his vrovisiuns ning on top of the frying pan. But the laboring of the ship had knocked every- thing there of a heap, and instead of the frying pan he caught hold of his wife's r sifter. At that moment the Frenchman ran up behind and caught him a kick. “Come out o’ that, you old villain, and fall in at the after pump!” said he. “Aw, very well.” sald Jacka, turning at once, for the cinder sifter had given him a bright idea, and he went right aft to his pmrades. By this time the Frenchmen were busy getting the first gun overboard. They were so long that Jacka’s boys had the after pump pretty well to themselves, and between spells one or two ran and fetched buckets, making out ‘twas for extra baling, and all seemed to be working like niggers. But by and by t ed out ail together with one woe TI pump is chucked! The pump is chucked! At this all the Frenchm run- ning, the young officer leading, and cry to know what was the matter. “A DP of cinders got awash, Jacka. “The pump’s clogged wi won't work.” Then we're lost and he caught b leaned his This was Ja Iss, I reckon men!” id of th against it lik id th foremast 2 ehild, Lost,’ is it? And inside ©” ten minutes, unless you hearken to rayson. Here you be, not twenty miles from the lish coast, as 1 make it, and with a wind. Here you be, three times that tance and more from! any port o° your the wind dead on her nose, and you ram-stramming the weak spot of her at a a that’s knocking the bows to Jericho. w, Mossoo, you put her about and rut tor Plymouth. She may do it. Pitch over a of guns forr'ad, and quit messing ship you don't understand, an’ I'l he will do it.” The young Frenchy was plucky as “What! ou be le ger. Take her into Plymouth, and be made prisoner? I'll sink first,” said he, But, you see, his crew weren't navy men to listen to him, and they had wives and families, and knew that C Jac was their only chance. In five min fo> ail the officer's stamping and morblewing, they had the Bean Vheasant about and w running for the Engish coast. Now, I've got to go back and tell you what was happening to the Unity in ai! this while. About 4 in the afternoon Cap'n Dick, not liking the look of the at all, and knowing that, so lon ed, he might whisde for priz his mind and determined to run bac Polperro, 80 as to reship,Cap'n Jac the prize crew aimost as soun as tney ar- rived. By 5 o'clock he was weil on his way, the Unity skipping along qui if she en enjoyed it, and ran betore the gale all that night, ‘Toward 3 in the morning the wind mo ter- ated, anu by 4:30 the gale nad blown iiseit out.” Just about then the lookout came to Cap'n Dick, who had turned in for a spell, and reported two ships’ lights, one on each side ot being them. Frenc annel The chances men out here were about inst their in tnis part of five to two; s Dick cracked on; an at laybreak— bout S:l—found himseif right Slap be- tween the very two frigaies that had called Jacki to halt the evening before. One was fetching alon, on tne port tack and the cther on the weacher side of him, just making ready to put a's They both och ran up the white ensign at sight of him; bat this meant nothing.” And in a few minutes the frigate to starboard fired a shot across lus bows ani hoisted her French flag. Cap'n Dick feigned to take the hint. He shoriened sail and roundei at a nice dis- tance under the lee of the enemy—both frigates now lying to gute cont ntedly, fh their sails uback and lowering the beats. Rut the first boat had hardly drop- red a fout from the davits when ne sung ut “Wurros, lads!” and up again went ihe Vnity’s great iugsail in 2 jiffy. The French- men, like their sails, were a!l aback; and before they could fire a gun the pinching vp to windward of them, Cap'n Dick at the helm aad all the re the crew flat on their stomachs. went under a ity with st of Off she ratthng snower from the enemy's bowchasers and musketry and was out of range without a man gurt, and with no more damage than a hole or two in the mixzen-iug. The Frenchmen were a good ten minutes trimming satis and btacing their yards for a chase; and by thai time Car'n Dick had slanted up well on their weather bow. Before breakfast time he was shaking his sides at the sight of Tu odd Johnnies vainly sprezd'ns ‘and. trim- ming more canvas to cateh up their lee way (for at first the lazy dogs had barely un- ed courses after the gale and still hac their topgailant masts housed). Likely enough they had work on nand more im- portant than chasing a small lugger ull ‘ay, for at 7 o'clock they gave up and stood away to the southeast, and left the Unity free to head back homeward on her old course, ‘Twas a surprising feat to slip out of grasp In this way and past two broadsides, | fees and any gun of which could have sent him to the bottom, and Cap'n Dick wasn't one to miss boasting over ii. Even during the chase he coutdn’t help carrying on in his usual loud and cheeky way, waving good- bye to the Mossoos, offering them a iow- Tope and the like; but now the deck wasn't big enough to hold his swagger. and in their jey of escaping a French prison the men encouraged him, so that to hear them talk | you'd have thought he was Admiral Nel- | sen and Sir Sidney Smith velied into one. B drelock they made ovt. the Ede stone on their starboard bow; and a Ti afier—the morning being bright and cle with a nice steady breeze—they saw 2 si right aheal of them, making in for Pl mouth souad. And who should it he but | the old Bear Pheasant, deep as a log! | Cap'n Dick cracked along after her, and a picture she was as he drew up close! Six of | her guns had gone, her men were baling in | two gang3, ana stili she was down a bit by the head, and her stern yawing tike a (er- mer’s tail wher his head’s in a “abbit hole. And there at the tiller stood Cap'n facka, bis bald heac shining like a state cf fun, and his one eye twinkled with blessed sat- si isfaction as he cocked it e now i ial which will be required when it is stated then for a giance over his right shoulde that the foundations alone have necessi- “Hullo! What's amiss?” sang out Cap'n | tated the use of nearly two millions of Dick, as the Unity fetched witnin hail. bricks and about 600 fons of cement. At “Aw. nothin’, nothin’, ‘Tho’ troubles as- the rear of the gigantic church is a fine sail an’ dangers —stiddy there, you old an- | piece of land on which it is proposed to glewitch!—she's a hit too fond 9’ smelling | phujld a commodious monastery, which in the wind. that’s all.” As a matter of fact, she'd taken mor> w: ter over her quarters than Jacka cared te think about, now that tht danger was over. “But what brings ‘ee here? An’ what cheer wi’ you?" he asked. This was Cap'n Dick’s chance. “lve a run between two French fri beasted, “in broad day, an’ give to both!" “Dear, now ates he the slip id Cap'n Jacko. have I-in broad day, too. They must ha’ been the very same. What did ‘ee take out of ‘em?” ake! They were two war frigates, ] 8; don't lose your temper. All I ged to take was this young Fr-nch orcifer here; but I thought, be, that you—having a handier craft Jacka chuckled a bit; but he wasn’t one to keep a joke going for spite. “Look-y-here, cap'n,” be said; “I'l hear your tale when w» get into dock, and you shall hear mine. What I want “ee to do Just now is to take this here lugger again : aving large congregation and sail along in to Plymouth with her as | Church Is Raving large congrenay ycur prize. I wants, if possible, to spare | Mush ‘under the direction of Mr the feelin’s of this young gentleman, an’ }Dutour Brown, is of a very. pleasing take it look that h> was brought in by | attractive character, and h force. For so he was, though not in the | 2 feature of the service, "Tome ecmmon way. An’ I likes the fellow, too, | i) Cane TOL GHpicawhen a though he do ki¢k terrible hard.” interesting program will be presented. . i = dll ise gute yet Frank Sewall will commence They do say that two day later, when | December 4 a series of Sunc Cap'n Jacka walked up to his own door, he} tpres at the carried the cinder-sifter under his arm; and | and Corcoran that, before ever he Kissed his wife, he | denberg stepped fore and hitched it on a nail right in the middle of the wall over the chimney piece, between John Wesley and the er-glass. aS IN THE CHURCHES A call has heen issued for a national Christian citizenship convention to be held at Washington, D. C., December 13 to 15. ‘Tne folowing questions are to be given es pecial consideration; Should suffrage be limited by educational tests er otherwise in the new island territories? Should civil vice reform be extended to the new is- land offic Should the national laws for our present territories, requiring scientific temperance education, forbidding — p fights and bull fights, restricting divorce and forbidding bigamy and fornication, be extended to our new island territories Should the American civil Sabbath be als eee wah ea eee plunge the other end in the fire, heating it e development of safe jar govern- ee ee = Parte Se ment? Should our arged army, in new ongly, but not so much that th pane dangers in the tropics, be protected there | cannet retain its hold. Then plunge the and elsewhere by the suppre: n of heated end in a pail of cold water. Imme- regimental oon or “canteen Should | diately the end held by the hand becomes the policy of prohibition be maintained in Alaska and the I territory and e tended to our new island territorie: ee The convention will consider also the new obligations that come with our new relations | action which they suppose the sudden cold to purify the nation itself in its suffrage, | to exert upon the heat contain 5 the its civil service, its Sabbath and from those | iron, which is thus driven to the opposite evils that center in the saloon. The con- | extremity. vention is to give special attention to pend- nes is ing moral measures in Congress. Hearings a jonal committees will be ar- before congre ranged. Among those who have signed the call and who will address the convention are Dr. Frank M. Bristol of this city, Dr. H. H. Russell, Anthony Comstock, Mrs. Mary H. Hunt and Joshua Levering of Baltimor he adjourned meeting of the Centra! Union Mission to elect a successor to Mr. M. C. Pope on the board of directors was id last Monday, and resulted in the unan- choice of Mr. P. H. Bristow. At the peti no other nomination was 23 unanimou: fC: intendent ch and supe 1, which is said to be the countr: The the Naval Academy. Rev H. H had printed for the in- forma of the cadets and their parents a giving information of the re- | * ligious aims and work of the school. He that “Div ice at the Naval my is conducted, as to its form and teachmgs, with reference to the needs of the naval service. In the nature of cise the efforts of the chaplain. toget with the co ion and sympathy of th cauets and people, must have for their basis the broad platform of Christian union. It may be added that force of cir- cumstances has practically solved the prob- lem of Christian union for the navy. Divine service at the academy, therefore, is a union service and a united servic About the use of the Book of Common yer, which has given rise to some crit- the chaplain says: “The Book of ‘ommon Prayer is used at all the public gious services of the institution. This done for various reasons. The first t, springing from custom, no service of prayer but this has ever been used in the rademy. ‘The second reason for its use that the cadets may become accustomed to a service that is common to the navy; a service that they, as officers, may from time to time be called upon to perform. It is quite usual, in having no chap- lain, for nding or other officers to hold divine service. Tn such cases the Book of Common Prayer is used. It is also used at all burial services, officers and. sailors preferring it. The final reason for this form of worship at the Naval Academy is that it seems more in keeping with the principle of order that prevails in the spirit aal work of the institution, and, on the whole, more creative of religions impres- sion, more formative of religious character, in such environment, than forms of wor- ship lacking in uniformity and concrete- ne "The letter say ercus prov “In addition to the x on of the government for 1 hip at the academy, there 13 a flourishing Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation; also, opportunity for Bible stu:ly every week under the direction of the chap- lain. The above, together with morn prayers in the mess hall and special service during the religious seasons, comprise ihe official and formal religious work at tue Naval Academy.” ‘he chaplain adds, as the concluding paragraph of his pastoral circular: “It. is earnestly to be desired that parents of ca- dets encourage their sons to make all prac- ticable use of the religious opportunities of the academy, A most honorable career lic: before the naval cadets. In these tormauve years too much emphasis cannot be p.aced upon the principles and motives of religion as the groundwork and inspiration of every- thing beautiful and commanding in mili- tary character. Parents are engag, high patriotic service when encouraging their sons to offer to the government, in pirit of>deep religious conse. they have to give of hand, head, and heart. A resident of this city who recontly re- turned from Europe gave to a Star r perter a description of what will be one of the finest church buildings in the world, as follows: “A great body of workmen is now en- gaged in erecting London's n2>w cathedral. The magnitude of this task makes it of in- terest to Catholics the world over. The ex- ternal length of the edifice will be 360 feet, the width 156 feet, and the height of the great nave 10) feet, while the total area will be nearly -55,000 square feet. The en- or mous nave Will be the largest in England, rivaling even York Minst>r. Its area w be 14,000 square feet, that of the nave at York being about 13,000, ‘The choice of t jand for the new thedral has been a somewnat complicaicd matter, >xtending over many years, wi the result that the present piece of land in the neighborhood of the Victoria station has been acquired. This has cost 55,000 pounds, and is nearly four acres in extent. “The approximate cost of the main struc- ture will be about 140,000 pounds, including to January, for les ing the decoration | come | me! and are while less ‘named Sth and churches, will ism the causes. with viston. tion revealed: Sacred Scriptur: separateness and soul. us the Divine man, I nth, inner history of Vision of the holy city their iron From Puck. a single due time will dictine_ monks, to Westminster, will conduct the fice with a fullness and hardly known in this country. “The founders and benefactors are those who give 1,000 pounds or more. forty-three headed by of other the Some fins e architecture may be particularly | which possess. 8 of this st n es several > of building. structure of brick. The intertor, in co: as funds will with rich marbles and mosa seme idea of the not thic far bui the will allow, be inhabited who, these his holiness, Those who collect 300 pounds in three years denominated those who ten has ‘special pounds will benefactors.” stree be a very present pastor, sion to Science, | higion.. path- | lowing topics: First, scientist and invento: . the king’s engineer; the world metry. soul-kingdom; Third, to be worshipe the world. scenes. “Was lec t of this Rev new singular tific explanation of a bar of iron in the hand by so hot that it is impos -| the fingers, This phenomenon, said by the sspondent to be femiliar to workmen in is ascribed by them the banquet Jabbers—"'Swell? thing I ate, execpt the ice water!” —s king Bike: s Triumph. Poblisbing Company.) The Bue! The Bronch Iss, church, stre-ts, on Man, His to Phile ures Sev who is Toulouse Why, one of t Life will Second, Fifth, and SS ‘Transference of Heat. From Natuce. correspondent the observatory at » | to a ve which city beautiful contingenctes. amount, 42,000 pounds nad Leen received up 1896, but, of course. been materially added to since that dats, “It has been decided for Several reasous to adopt the Christ architecture. Many E n-Byzantine cnglishmen would have preferrsd Gothic, as more in keeping with the momortes of many of our old cath drals, but this would have provoked con parisons with would bave entailed an enormous e and required a much longer period In a | mental work must goon as the fabric rises, ; | while a Byzantine edifice can be comp! money and in much less time, 1 to be gradually distant ing be i by been Pope of rse or form ann: the spe principally of time overed It will give be the Bene- returning once more A list of published, Leo XIIL be known become quite corner man ov: the their associated calls attention phenomenon, the scien- he seeks. one end and ible to ri © som: I didn't the y. is taking steps its seventieth anniversary will cover a week or more attractive one. Fred Hei the a distinct the transition and with Kants; Fourth, the opened Word; Revela- © heavenly Arcana of the worlds, correspond- Sixth, the universal and alone compa’ the two The names of feunders and benefactors will be inscribed in a book, which will be carefully preserved in the cathedral and honored according to ancient usage.” pel M. E. Church, corner of historic to Under its the world world the count recor mechan as of ison opened this this has of pense the ornd seen in Rhenish irus Cologne, large quantities of mater- daily of- dignity at present benefactors,” contribute sums of not as all row evening very lay night lec- of 16th Swe- and His Mis- ophy and to Ki r the fi Closing with Take tain it in > repellant znize HIS LONELY LIFE How’ Dreyfus Spends His Days on the Tle du Diable. ed | was such a mission of humanity that a | maa of heart could not refuse. however j unpleasant might be the consec a | They have been painful to m R ‘a rot complain. 1 would do It agai - authori of the ad ristra tio: penitens uarie repltet to me that they had wed no instr m to allow t prisoner more comforts than any other convict. Like the other convicts, he might order ot fea h ‘anteen. ow. it was known at th's time that the prisoner was fl becar > one had seen him walking on the han 1 TREATED WITH GREAT HARSHNESS Yet He Manages to Keep In- formed of What is Going On. PENDING INVESTIGATIO Special Correspondence of The Evening Star PARIS, November 15, DNs LFRED DREYF! in his prison on tt He du Diable, is a last to “benefit by « regime of favor” peniing the imvesti- gation of his Ss news comes to 3 the French public at the same time with the first truthf:! talls of what th. regime has Ard these present an bus AS any other part mystertous affair. Since the be 1897 Dreyfus has been in solitary con‘in ment, without a view of either land or sea He has even been in The govern- ment has furnished him only with rations of goat's milk and bread. And, though the Dreyfus family is allowed to send him stip- 1d been. details ensemble of th ning of as myster! ulated monthly sums for extra food and other comforts in a tropical climate, th: great mass of ihis money has accumulated unused—ty the snmount of $1,400. One of the most c joua documents that have come to light is a page from the erunt book of the firm at Cayenne from whom all hiy purchases of Drey- fus ‘ When it is remembered | that his only rations goat's milk and | bread, this meager list of thirty days’ pro- | visions is eloquent ly be the to make comfort fan voluntary; dilemma of choice beiw and now economy that ean and it presents v refined man fe en health, clea shment. Month's Supply. One liter of wood aleohe , for two bottles of orange flower waver, pots of preserved butter, two pour chocolate, two boxes of cheese, six bottles of soda water, tw» bottles of mineral water, | six pairs of socks, two pounds of tot fifty cigars, one wooden pipe, two lacy boxes of matches, one large ‘packaz: writing paper, two packages of ca one bottle of grantlated kola, 10 poun:! soap, two pairs of white cotton trousers and six white handkerchiefs, Other months showed orders for canned meats and vegetables, Excepting alway the goat's milk and bread, the prisoner}: lived on these eanned goods since early in 1897, when his mysterious close coniin: ment wos begun. He might buy fresh m and vegetables: but it is said he will Kk them. Between Dreyfus and the 1 recteur of the administration penitentia!r: there has been a silent struxgle going 0" a struggle in which Dreyfus alwnys the worst of it. Seven miles out in the ocean, twenty seven miles northwest of Cayenne, Ie the three Salvation Islands, side by side, and separated only by two narrew channeia The He Royale, almost » mile long, vr tains a little colony of convicts. The Ue | h contains some stores an! a Between them lies the inhabited by only Dreyfus ani It is 2 su tered little bare of ent for sm Dewn on its lowest by from the grove of tr land grove, far trees « one aden tower. Upon its top there i s gun. B the wooden t there is a weoden house, sGrrounde high, broad por his ‘2 the habitation of the guar hen thers is seen beside 41 a high pai as high as the first of a house. ade hut. It is within the palisade that | lives. The ison, and th within the pa his prison y sees only the sky. Hix Daily Routine. The paifsade, the hut, the hous | porch and tower have all been photograpt ed: a a traveler who got his informacion at the i Koyale itself has told the dai H life that Dreyfus leads. At 6 a.m. one of | th gu un ks th hut door, a ne | | priso Y Walk into his yard. He takes | the a Ks up at the sky Ani then he m il am. till noon is 1 ain. It is his lunch ho: Fr 3 pm. his yard a He takes t ~ oolts Ly at thi And then he walk hen | he is locked up in the huz ag nent } morning. Within the hut he has his room to clean. his bed to make. his d me ¢ keep clean, his daily cooking to b his bool s to read, his writing paper ar beside the only grove of trees. His guards | lived in a larger building that had deen a barn. At night they locked him in. By day he roamed about, collecting bugs and sea- weed in the cool hours, reading and writing in his grove when it was hot. He had his food from the canteen of the He Royale. “During these first two years,” the gover- ner himself is credited with having said, in a moment of indiscretion, “the prisoner Was permitted liberties so’ difficult to ex- plain that they might well authorize cer- in suppositions. It would be curious to line as a psychologist.” men of experience, owing 1 allegiance to the authorities at Cayenne and acting under direct instructions from Paris, Dreyfus, nevertheless, was alloy to roam about the isiand as he pleased tnually tempted to engage in plans for an escape. At low tide the rocky shore of the lie du Diable is separated from that of ile Royale by less than 100 yards of Across it _it Dreyfus often talked with viduals from Cayenne. He consiscently refused their offers of assistance. Did he fear a trap? shot exc Did Dreyfus tear he would be aping? Or sclous of his inno- ce had he resolved to wait in patience? it is the common talk at Cayenne, among a population more in sympatay with the convicts than their jailers, that he might easily have been rescued any time within the first two years. “If he only would!” is the Continued phrase which travelers hear in wine-shop conversations, now that the revision has unsealed men’s lips. “If he had given a million. he could have bee! rescued at any time!” The million and the rescue are synonymous. One i of Cayenne, a Mberated cenyiet Dupont, now acting as a pett lender in and out the pe Settlements, even made a trip to Paris to Propose a plan to the Dreyfus family. He was received by Mme. Lucie Dreyfus, “but she would not comprehend.” On the other hand, she was extremely anxious to ploy him as her agent at Cayenne. view of softening her husband's ca He would be her known and official respondent, accepted by euthorities. This position named money cor- the penitentiary the good ma refused, because to be the known agent of the Dreyfus family would have hurt his business. The man chosen later, Paul Du- fourg. a negro baker and confectioner, has | earned his money. “Some time after the arrival of Dreyfus at the islands,” he said recently to Jean Hess, the African cxplorer, “I received letter from my Paris correspondent, asking if I would consent to occupy myself with the material interests of the prisoner. With the letter came a draft for 1,500 francs. It minister for thi herefore wrote t ly to hold respenstile for he prisoner's Hi ted as he was to a regime not corre nding to the terms of the sentence of tt purt-martial. 1 sent them at the same time a plete medical report on the Salvation Isiands and . conditions unde Dreyfus —micht hoy on of the cima vined to the p of Imprisonm ‘or this I paid 1.000 franes to L Cayenne. Thanks to the use m document in Paris. the material coniditt ef the prisoner, which had been hard, was notably atmeliorated Supplies Sent Easily The A ‘etter from Mathieu Dreyfus to 1) fourg will inicate the character of concessions he obtained from the pentten- “ary authoriti vA oT, INS Monsionr Dutourg, Industrial . f yesterd: the letters f axks for several letters may ts which tt rnb pps will be sitle for ua to send him by the ste of 2 For thi L beg yen te do your t > tus them for hit at Cayenne Viehy water, condensed milk, and, if pom “ few m My sent you teday by par t sap, chocolate and two undershivts. Hay ° kindness to hand the package ever te the per tary admintstration for my brother. Agnin n r more { thank yom for all that you have de preserve the life of that immocent man anti! (> day of the discovery of the truth. 1 t t i gan to make a study of “the cha most generous type. MATHIEU DREYF Then followed the best period of thr of Dreyfus on the island. [t was not ast. Early in 1897 M. Lebon, then @@ for ihe colonies, began prescribing raordinary measures against the “ nf the prisoner. who had resisted all te ations to escape for more than two y When the Serews Were Applied. How M. Verignon, directeur of the adm stration penttentiaire at C ther penne, ape” reads like a detective romance of In the wine sho Cayenne they chuckle over it today. scenery there are three Islands, lying ! somber night, without moon, without » The wind is on the sea. The breakers " against the rocks. [{ was ai such an } that M. Verignon got up his expedi Leaving the He Royale in a small baat, with three picked men and an In pilot, he sailed round Ue du Dix ding in a litile creek. Silently picked their way to the goat house De he little grove, where Dreyfus was lock vody stopped them. Every one wis srious, This decided orved to ML a prisoner was “not “ oluminous with minute the pris s. Drey He was aw “ guard ew building quickly ru the we ower th of th © new regim a tin a tiny prison yard w se of uh and toid t ation he io his ec eyfus family to protest i lose eonfinem terms ef th tas il were that the simply “ina mpaign for th een begun in Paris, would re ve noe commun family. The do of the pena my protestr ayving at he could not answer r the life of Dreyfus under th cnged froumstances. The answer was + nd om Paris # complete embalming it Tf Dryfus dies,” they wr * his body. Otherwise wil « hat you allowed him to escape.” How He heeps Informed. rosince the pu sentiment of Ca The governor himself admits that fus has been treated harshly. As for the cor viots, liberated and confined, It and more past their ress e. His uards words writien on his = . from foundry, At k sent to Dreyfus mor y “R” upon al ned was in progress. w that aAnswe fur being warned t se men red. “1 are Wax asker pencils. 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