Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1885, Page 7

THE DA1LY BEE--THURSDAY, E I&ss TH fv CHEAPuST PLACE IN OMAHA TO BUY ik A DEWEY &STONES One of the Best and Largest to Belec NO STAIRS TO CLIMB. 8tocks in the United States t From. FEB 885 KUARY 19, 1 LIFE UNDER A TENT, (Trevels Wit A Cr A Circus that Was Bankrupt t5 Begin With ~Indlans Made it Profitabls Eod r Outilt in the Pogy" O'Birien’s QO Mock Zalus. Herald anathow started,” said tl dreamlly, “‘We ran that ocncern for tacuty-six weeks, although we bai to stop nearly cvery evening and mies the next place for want of sufficlent funds to pay our bills,” The speaker wss Charley Kolil, and the ssene was the snvg little private of fice of ths West Side aima musenm, one of the favorite loanging places for itener- ant showmen wlho are compelled to lay Chicag “We fore we ace wh burst be- thowman BLEGANT PASSEN GEB ELEVATOB Llrl temporarily on account of the weath- MAX MEYER & BRO. PIANOS. -— AND—— ORG-AINS Factory Prices, EASY TERMS. 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T) those abont to heir interest by calling on us or send for our price st which will appear ahout Janu olicited, embark in the drug buslners will to consuls Mail_orders SIREET. o well ary bth, 1114 HARNEY COUNCIL BLUFFS ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEW 8. Leaders of the Negro Kace. “To the editor of the Bre. It is matvelous, as well ae o curlosity t> white people, why it is that eo few black peop'e ever zet into, o 1old a pab- lis office. They have noticed pariicularly that most of the public offices held by olored menare by mulattoes, ench as Hiram Revele, B. K. Bruce, Jokn M. Lengsten, E. P, McCabe and Frederick Douglars, They want to know where the b'ack men are, They also want t> know, whether they, the black men, have the ability and the educitton to pat them where these bright mulattoes are, Ii a0, what keeps them at ihe bottom round of the ladder! The interrogatory belng ro wonderfal, T will satlsfy yoar curiosity by enswermng, The g nuive negro, or blask nan, Fas the ability, education and integrity, but has not that ambition, the geateadativeness, or force of will to reach the top mest round, as th of the quadreon, The bright complex- icned mulstto is three-fourths whito, and comea 32 near being v hite his ambition for public gain, office, avd plunder 18 juet the tame ns & white man's, Go 1nt> a colored mens convention, or maes meeting, the black man is Lt to speak, Lut when a commit'ee on resclutions is appointed it s the blsck men {n that bady that are des’guated to fill that reeponsible position, Yet tho yellow men take the iead, > the spoating, while the genvine negro uses his bratn and does the eub stantial wortk, We know tha: Dougar, Lsngston snd Brees claim 16 be our lsaders, Dot the fsct 1s, are they? Tney may he our repreentatives. How so? No sir, they are not, although under these pretsnii ny they have boeen very fortunete and euccessful. Bat under the exieting circumstances, by no means are they leaders f the negro race, because they bave too much white blood in them to asscclats with negroes, and not ¢nough white blood n them to become a br ther to the white man, Fred Douglass’ Jast act proves this, J. W, 8. Bosrox, Council Bluffs, Feb. 17, — — Notice, | hereby glve notice to all, not to trust wy wifc on my account, as I will here aiter pay no bills of her contract ng. JaMES WINANS, Feb. , 1885, —— It ls reported that Henry Howe and Mrs. 8. Jones, who figured rather prom inently in u church ecandal were married yester Couzcin Buurrs 1OWA ITEMS, The Catholic chureh at LeMars cost 40,000, The Tama ccunty Indlans are expert poker players. The bosrd of suneivisors of Page coun- 1y have adopted plans for the buildlog of @ new court house, Calliog it *‘rambo cider’ in Centreville has no visiblo offect cn tho size of the fine, Adam Ha'den paid $50 for this in- formation, Van Buren county, skows that there was a deficit of §9,051 28, A wmonumment n memcry of 20,000 lowa eoldiers, who died in the wer, ia o be erected at Des Moines on the grounds of the new capitol. Prof. Stalker, state veterinary surzeon, estimates that upon his rec)mmendatioa four or five car loads cf glandered horees have been killed in the state during the past year, At Decorah an effort is belog made te reeist the collectlon of the speclal tax lev- {ed in aid of the Burlinzton, Cedar Rap- ide end Northern railway company, which recent!y completed an cxtension 10 that city. The Creston gitls have a club and it is against the rules for any young lacy who is 1 member to riceive attentions from a soung maa who s In e hablt of becom- ing lutexlcated. The Towa roa works have successfally cast one of the Jargest oylinders ever cast in the west, Tt s fora stesmer of the Dismcnd Jo line, Its size is forty two by ¢'ghty-four laches in diameter, welgh ivg oser four tong, Tt is built on the same principle as the cylinders used on ceean steam A fellow In Des Moines wich {hs e m plete make up of a grangor, swindled some of the sharpet dealiog butchers in town, His scheme was to drive up to the door of the shop In a farmer’s eleigh and contract his hogs at a rather low figure, receiving £10 to make the matter binding. He won four times, Tho state board of pharmacy are taking a band in the enforcoment of th prch bition law by procecding sgamst drug glets who se1l 1'quors fcr other than me- dicinal purposes. Whenever such vicla tors are discovered thec mmwismionrevoke thoir certificates as pharmacicts, The suprema cour: decides thas the board of pharmacy has that power. Martin Garbar, of Dabaque, depaty collector of internal revenue, recently re turned from a teip through his cistriet, whizh embraces torty-niue countles, At cvery place visited Ly him it 18 said Le found the probibition law totally disre garded, Beer and whisky wore openly cilled for and sold to strangers as well g5 thoge known to salocn-keepers, In 1849 Towa rad 1 present shia has 11,844 prescat 5,721 femalo t rollment in the pablis In 1844 she expended for sctool purposes £40,138; in 1883 the sshool expenditures were 85,000 868, Poty covnty bas the grcat st number of schzol houses, 237; Eaunct tay the smellest numbor, 31, An sutogeaph and hitherto ugpub- lished letter from George Washiogton has heca prasented ) the Aldrich col- lections in thestst) library. It waspre- tcated by Judga Itichir’s of Fort Dodge, agrandson 1o the man whom the letter was aldressed. The letrer wra written from headquarters at Valley Forze,March 1), 1778, to Caleb Gibbs, a captsia in the continentsl army, direoting him to send acompary as en ¢s:0it for three men menticned in the lotter. The letter velaed as $1,000. | —— A round mind goss ver sound digestion, and no'hiog contributes t ward it more than the use of Anguostura Bicters, the werld renowned apnetizer, man utactured cnly by Dr J, G, B, Siegort & Son chool hourer; at She also has at 3 is reldom without & The report of experts who examined the acoouatsof ex-Treasarar Clark, o C L — Beef gallds & remedy f0: snake bite. Does this account for the p pulartity of beef tea amory old topers g [ ‘Do you want to buy a monkey? It's only £10/" comes a grutf volce up through the speaking tube from below. An af- firmative reply having boen shouted down be *‘apout.” two dirty-lookirg Itsllans enter with a puny Josko, who immediate ly makes an attempt to lunch off the re pertars legs. “That's usilesy, Joko," suggests Charley. ““That patt of bis anatomy is cven harder that h's check,” The fecble apology for a monkey seems fo have ar rived at the rame conclusion, bacausy he deedats, and sfier haviog shown what his talen's in the ional line are by shooting off a ¢ tanding on his head and similar antics, is cerclod off to a cage to become a member of the happy family. " *“Woll, sir,” begine sautentlously, I had tnat could read Latin and—" ‘Ob, come coff!" interrupts Charley, ‘‘yoar tales are to commonplace to iater ost anybody.” And th:n he contioues hls nsreative of the bust circus that ran for twenty-:ix wecks on tick. ou eee, John O'Brlen, better known as ‘Pogy,’ was nomirally the owner of the show, but we had a biz lutarc in it, having advanced the expentes for txo weeks, We first got ragular’y atuck in Oil City. It bad been raining hsvd for ‘eteen days, and not adollar had come in that day. About o'cleck in the evening alorg comes a collcetor fer the Oil City Derrick with a bill of §200 for advertising., ‘It will take a derridk to raise that amount of money,’ says 1, and shortly afterward the proprictor f that paper came plod- ding through therain, a mile and a balf. We told b thst we didn’t have 200 ceants, much less $200, and that we had sunk §18,000 in the enterprisa, He looked carefu'ly over our portable prop- city, pronounced it good collateral for his claim, and agrezd t> let us o on to the next place we were killed for, Franklin, Pa_ We packed up our dude, bu: we couldu’t leave the depot, becsie the freight agent Tiald us up for £150 back feight. Our en'ma's were that they began eating up their c the agent remeined imperturbable. nally we went back to the newapaper man and threw oureelves on his merey. Ho pacifi|d the agent and cawe along with us. Whether he piid the money or Lromised him to let him down easy whenever a trip to Canada stoald bzcome necetsary on ac- count of financlal operatioos, I don't koow. Amykow, he was a d— clever fel- low, and lis managed the affair. But then he held the whole layout—twenty- two cars, 120 horses and 140 peoplc. We bad sunshise in Franklin and did a rous. | ing business. Tho newspaper man sat in the ticket wazon, aud when he bad taken 1 cocough fcr his claim he left. He Wiot3 ug up aft:rward for a column and » half, and sent us 200 ccpies. All ths papers along the route clipped thefr pufls from it. 1t was the best notice we ever had.” “Yer, and afterward we had {0 cat up two plebald ponies to keep from stary- mg,” eaid the tall partaer. It wasn't just that way,” explained Chbarley. ‘‘We were dead stuck in Mat- toon, 111, and the lavdlord wouldn’t let us go without some c>llsteral sacuri'y for our grub. His wife had taken a fancy %o the ponies, which was left in hock. We rodeemed them afterwa'd. They were then qulet fat, and Fai been very well kept, The freight bill was always a stuoner to get over. 1 recollect in Flora, I, we had to bypo hecate one of our brand-new flat cars and one cf our wagons with it. That we dion't yst bask. The last heard of the outfit iz was atill thers, ttméing ona ride track. Old ‘Pogy’ wes a gr.at blcke. Whenever we werc stuck asd bad everytbicg ticd up he would refar to me as the man who was to te seen, but as 8ocn 88 we got out of the tcrapo he was the sole owner of the greate t show on wheels Finslly we tcok the concern on our own hook and wot as far ay Menitoba, clearing $40,000 i the (nd. The Tediuns are good cus- i They pay likerally and caro for clso but tho elephants They t 1% the Indisrs—squat around thess auimals, talor fashion, smoke incessant- ly, and say notkicg bat ‘Umph.’ These Indians are o very quecr sev of mes they zo and cea the elephant every day. A dead sileace fell orer the group after this bad k. It lasted 1cr icveral winutes, during which thne the speaker scratched his head a3if in deep medita tion, The oppressive situation wes re {Le tall parfnor mkey cnco IS ng,” who attacked the reporter with a volubility that would shame an action- eer, He hid jususfllicted those present with his toaching story of the death of two lNttle children who died from c¢old faet, because they did not use his shoe- blacking—the “Paper King” sells that commodity when he is not ai'is'ically en gaged—when the tall partner epoke up. “K hiis afbad man, With juct breaks as he made now he rulns our reputation for trust and veraclly, We camp very near being lyncked ouce on account of a very bal practicsl joke he olayed at a razor-back out in Roskford, 1" **A razor-bsc’ exclaimad porter in sheer surprise, ‘*Yes, sir. Razor-backs src the odd men who help at the depot t) load the wagons on the (14t cars. That is pretty bard work, and the bosy canyesi-man stimulates the ardcy of the men by ehout ing: ‘Raise your backs,’ which gives them their names, Well, this Rockford chap wanted t5 *join oar” with us, He said that he had'a pair ef Jung to blow 483 at a lung tester, snd 1hat he could dance with the best of 'em. 8o Charley told him to be on deck after the por- formance to take part in tae dime con cert, He had todress up as a nigger mivstrell of course but Charley gzave bim aixtare of axle greate and stove polish instead of burnt cotk for a nake- up, and when the poor fellow tried to ciean himself aftcr the show was over they palled the tent on bim, It nearly smotbered hum and it cured blm of clreus life for ever. ‘Jofrioy ¢ h hy r y | are. lieved hy the entrance of the *‘Paper | s life s to driv, atrotches rolls of ¢ hundred ponde, cle fmaly, sings in tne dime museum, the wagons and then vaach the next bill a6, he iy nct & much imbued with t sauties of th ‘gyrstions of the Bohemisns, ns the B ton fellers call eircus life, “I may be bad,” remonstrated Charley “but 1 am, st least, 15t guilty of larceny, The big ote there,” pointinz to 1he tal partaer, *“‘tobbed & gang of Zalus.” “Lalmply diratmed thom,” plended the attacked party. 1t was In Phila delphia, where & rival concern had go hold o’ the first genu came to this country. Zulus or shut up shop. big colored fellows, for a Chestnut street They had holes in thelr noses cars, fine big tecch, and fiery cyer, ac that we could casily fix them up with the s wolghirg Iad ravels all night t So we hired t #c who roped it a farrier for thele unmentisnablos. Bat shlelds we didn’t know what to do until spoars snd shiclds out of a back window while thele owners wero at lunch during ntermissicn, came to Gallion, Ohio, where was recognized as Joe Walker, for- merly & portor in one of ths the hotels there. Ho was wanted by the authorities for unprofesslonal conduct, and we had to give bim up to civllization, He got three years and lesraed bharness. maklng e the state expense in Columbue, The other fellow eaw his Iucreased valoe sinca he wesaione, and insieted on a raise of his ealary, which was $15 a month and find. We gave bim what he wantcd, bat ho kept on raiciog until he raised us out of patience. Now the Zulus ars s> plenty that we wouldn't tako them for their keep, The groat atrsct’on now is the man who can ex- pand hischeit. 1 know of one who ined two tarilors. Yon gce, he can ex pand I's chest twe Inches in Giametcr In his natural sto he geta his mcasure taken for a fine suit, and when it is tried »n he expands. Of course, ha ge's the spoiled su't for cne—third of {is value, He ehould teke Alderman Hildreth's Place in the council. A MODE BASTILI. The Uskoown Horrors of Morro Cgs- ile, 1n the Harbor of Havana, Havana Letter to Boston Herald, Who enters Caetle Morro leaves all hops behind. To pass between its portal involuntarily, f>r aby reason, is considerad equivalent to a sen cocs of death, and many who have gone there cannot even be traced Lteyond the iron deors. 1f any recerd ox'sis of prisoncrs who eater the castle, common rumor lies, for it is y2nerally said and believed that only in keaven ate 1ho books kept. No cne on earth kai ever seen them, and nene ever know positively where they Scmns say that the reccris of arrest and confinement are sent to the mintster of justico st Madrid. Others suggest that the daily reports of the commandant aro sent to Span and destroyed aftc: perusal. But, however It may be, tho common understanding s that whosver esters Mcrco castly loses his identity, and never comes out again, for the bodies of the dead are said to be cast over the parapets into the s:a. The castle stands st the entrance tothe barbor of Havara; a plctureeque bu gloomy pile, missva masonry resting upon the crzst of a rock which ricesabout two hundred feet perpendicularly out of the scas, Itis the point of a peninsula wl'ch embraces the harbor of Havana, and makes the latter, when once entsred, wssafe as any in the world, Covering many acres with its walls and dungeons, the castla is one of the largest and moet formidable fortresses in the world, sur- paseing even Fortress Monroe in its cx- tant. The prasent cistleds not so ancient as some others on the island, as the Eoglish captured it and blew it up 100 age, and compelling the Spantards id a milllon or two of dcllars In its o Modern artillery would ghatter down the walls, but would make no impression upon the eternal rocks, among whote crevices and ravines tho dungeons of the castle have been plsced. There is no prieon in Earope s> secure from cspture, either by exterior or i terior attack, for 1he corridors corsti- tute a labyricth in which t s eald that even the commandant Limself requires no zuide No p-n will eves re cord and mo mind can ever correctly {fmag'me he horrors which have taken placy within thoss walls, The infquities of ths inquis't'oa did not eurpass them, if the sonies that ara told ase true, and people say that the craelties coatinue. fhe life of every cit zan of Cuba is the property of the cagtata general, 10 be aisposed of as he choojes, and he has ¢ thet meny of them b3 spent witain theze css'le walls, Nobody knows how Jarge a number are in confitcment; no body koows who they are ¢r what they suffar; all the public ever knows is thar S:norSo and-So has been ‘*denounced” and taken to the castle, ¢nd his fiisvds keep mighty qu et lest they may bave 10 joun him ther-, » Senors bo-and-So soldor, If ever, come lick from the cas- ila, and it is bettar for his family and fricads not to ask why, Tho csstle is for politiesl prisoners exclasivily, ani when we wera over thira our gulde told us it was fall, He ehowed us the placa—a Lit Je parads gronnd—whera tha executions tike place, and the precip ca over which the bodies of the dead are cast into the s:a; but could give nocloe to the number annuslly shot, or the number who die in the dungeoos, and the officers and guirds on duly were quite as uncommur wtive, if thoy were got es ignorant, y all inqubrizss they have cne answer., If you ask tham how wany prisoacrs ave in the duogeons, the rame raply will b:: Doy sabe,” (God knows “How maoy ever come oat alive!" “Dios sake **Do 1hiey ever ecaure ro'ease! “‘Dios sabe."” And the words wers true, Heaven, and Feaven only, knows sll {hat has trantplred wiliu those gloomy walls. The vweers cn guard sre changed oftan, and while they stay it is thelr usiners to learn as little'as possible. When a pris- oner is tcat there they lock him up and report the fact at lisadquarters. With that thelr duty and their koowledge ends. And it is in this way that Cubas governed The theory of government which Spain has fo lowed since she ae- sued controlof the western hem'sphere, and by which she has los: all that she once had, is still in vogue. The Spaniard has learned no lasson by ¢xporience. He seewns oblivious to the results of tyranoy in Mexlco and South America, and hes seen & maguificent empire pass from his baads without realiziny thut wurder and cruelty arc not the best modes of eecar- ing peace and promoting civilization. ——— Mys. Sarah Stafiord, of Kacxville, whe dled on Taesday, was jast one landred ytars cld that day, 1 sledge hammer 3 hcraes, teeds an 3 Zulus tha' ever We had to have clothing store, and ald of & batketmaker for their heads and for their speara and big, poculisr hide I went to the rival consern and threw the They trok well until we one Is ANILHT W TERROR U itish Nerve Fearfuity Shak Atarm Qlock ' by ':‘\mn.r sco Cal Among Iyt tho cer cral ¢1i'ps the in Misslon Bay for tom was the Dritlsh ship Janet Roy, A ous story is just now in clrculs along the water front about the captain of this vessel, The sk!pper, acoordingto rumer was going down Long Wharf toward his sbip one night recently, when he struck his foot in the darkness againet a smal package. 1t westoo windy to strike s match, the wharf was deserted, and the captain was compeled to trust to his sense of touch for a discrvery cf the na ture of his find. As far as hecould make out, the paskegs was wrappod in soft pa per, meatly tied, Jiko a pouad-b x cf tea, and, in all probibility, was eomo domes tic necorenry, drepped by a belated and perhaps notoversterdyhousoholder, The ¢ ptain pat th packege in his pocket and went duwn to theend of the wharf, whera he t1ied bis lungs agairst the gals for half an hoar yelling for his bear. Fimally the second mate and the two able bodied s:amen comprisirg the nucleus o his crew heard h's wild halloofng and put ashore for him, The capiain's tempor wai s0 ruflled by the dilaworiness of hi, subordinates that he forgot all about the package in his pocket natil they had al most reached the ship, when he meation ed the mattsr to the mate. AN ALARMING have been 0 1 d t 0 SUGGESTION, The latter, who had spent an uncom forable evening reading about the explo sions i his native London, immediately red the pleasent euggestioa that the packnge might be some infirnal Yankee invention in the way of belated Koglieh mariners, who abound in that locality at this scas Tne captain sl scted topooh- pooh the id:a, but nevertheless trok tha fret opportunity to shed the stroggliog hoon the packa which, » diecomfort, ewitted a dls sound as he turned it over con! “HIf hi wera you 1'd ‘eave the hinfer nal thing overboard,” rald tha mate, edy ivg forward as far as the epray would al low hi To thow timicly ia the presoncs of his underlings would have been di asttous to vlie captain’s fature aatkorty, and he kept the package, though at halt-arm's length, until they reached the ship. ©N aid the ekipper, with forced hilarity, *‘we il seo whether hits a pound hof sonp or the title decds hof anestate,” and hoe laid the packaze carefully on the main batzh. Oue of the crew sterted for ward for a lantern, but before he had te- ken a dczcn steps the captaia and tae re mainder of his otefl’ wers back in the'r rowhoat and yelling like madmen to hin to f.llow, THE SHIV This he attempte to do, but 80 slowly that he was Jeft bshind, for after a few ABANDONED, CHAS, SHIVERICEK, FURNITURE UPHOLST il OMAL Y AND 1 A DRAVPERIES, M0 P weenger Flevator t floors, " nd LA, NERL \ e oot et . SIMPSON G, Ul p,jqeisq THE LEADING CARRIACE FACTORY 1409 and 1411_Dodse St. { “ammate™ } Omaha Nee on application TRY YOUR LUCK! And Don't Lose This Chance. F'or thiss Wear Onlvy. The best opportunity eve red to try your luck in theso hard tim In order to give the public in general the advantage with o small ticlpate in real German Money Lottery, guaranteed and sanctioved by the Genmin govern ment, we offer five whole orignal tickets which we nave made into 16 different numbers of the 287, Hamburg Lotiery, in club plays and sell same for th L of 20 as long a8 we have some on hand. Thi'so tickets are good for the last th drawings which com mnce March 11,1385, aud termivate on May 13, 168 ¢ has been for ovor 143 yoars in ex y thousand 500 winning numbers whi ler of tickots rec We hopo, 1 ho winning lists, will bo 3 100,000, 90, & 115 Tt1s of wteress to each ible bofore the tickets ara nil sold, Remt eithor by Post- ts willeo forward at once. Original tickets of the Hamburg & antly on hand. C. K SCHMIDT & GO, 62 Congreas Strect, Detroit, Mich, T/ IOHEY 550 SDRES 1w incipal it Who have trifled away their youthiul yigor ind power. Who fierinirom terrible drains 1 losses, who are weak, sec-ds of feantic shoutlug, the cccupants of the boat dashed their vmrs madly luty the sesthing waves and dirappesred in the night, They rowed &5 if they were matched with Hanlan, urtil they reached Long Wharf, where they hauled thom- selves ashore and sat dowa on the string- er to catch their breath. The mate was the first to break the silence. “*Hit's sure to hoxplode syon,” he gasg- ed. o “Did you 'car 'ow the blamed thingrat- tled hinside?” seid onc of the satlors. “Great 'eavene!” exolaimed the ekip- per; i'm a ruiced man. There won't be a etick hof "er left.”" Then they Indulged in & fow rcgrets for their companion loft in such unpleas- ant intimacy with the luferaal affaicwbicl had kicked up such a myeterious and aw ful row the moment the tkippsr set in on Engllsh propeity. : In this way snd in occarional conject- ures as to whetherthe absndoned mariner would swim ashore or break into the cab- inand die under the saloon demijoho, the excited crew speat the four chilly hours intervening between dawn. Inthe dim gray light of the morning thelr azony was Intensified by the svperst tious lor- ror cf saeing a ghst y forn, clad ia loose garments end a ja'r of old gum hoots, moving to ard fio over the Wharf, as if searching for some thing. MISTAKEN FOR A GHOST, Tho distrassed mariners were on the peiat of betaking themselves agaln to 1hs argcy waves woen the apparition 1.as tuted them by uttering s string cf unghostly arathemas, ard deliveriry an unmistazably buman kick at one Bob Goble's mast fls that had strutted up to {nspact him. When the weira figure sp- proached within speaking rang the msri pers heard him multer repeatedly: “I'm sartin I dropped it hore. Soma cuss:d lime-jalerrmu ¢ have pickedit up.” ““Ave you dropped banythiog!’ the captsin final'y inquired, unable to ccn trol his curiosit “*Have 1/Well, I gusss Ikave. Idrop ped ma 'larm clock here last pight, going home, and durn me if some drouken old shall back a n't a picked it up.” “*Ab, hindeed,” cjaculated the captaln, with a significsnt Lok at the mat>, 'y u dropped - your halarm elock, did you? Wnder yoa c1op haty hing s)'cavy snd nct wiss bit “Why noi?’ eaid the ger, "shea wes ondy a doll nd-a-half one, an’ T hed her done 1p in a cigar-box with o lot (f gecearles, ) 1 never misted her, nohow. I wconldn'c s cared, but I'd her wound up g0 L'd get up ia the mornin’ and ¢ig cams afera the tide turned. None of you fellsws didn'c ree nothin’ of 1o swmu !l package round here, did you?’ teriang stran " THE CAPTAIN'S DEMLIOHN, ““Oh, no, no, Nothing whatever, my man—nothing, hl hessure you,” replied the captain, a8 he slid rapidly into his host and gave imperative orders to 10w hack at racing speed. But they weie too late, Tneabaudoned mariner, left to his fate with the dreadful atann-clock, pre fored to meet death in the captain's demijobn to oblivion in the polluted wavis of Miseion Bay. Thry found him mutin ously drunk ia the cabio, but instead of givivg him the usual mild treatment of chaine and dry biscuit In the hold, &s when be sobered up he was sentenced to an norcase allowance of his datly grog wnd a ecft billet on the lee side, The other ecamen are also eure of not furling the topaails in a galc as long 13 they keep their tcngues quiet. 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