Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1903, Page 13

Nancy Hopewell’s Dream A Short Story By M. Quad, The year 178, and the merchants and Ship owners of the new republic were sénd- ing corn and shooks and furs and rum aboard and bringing home cloths and groo- eries and machinery. Captain Elisha's brig “Mary Ann” of Salem had been latd up for months for the want of & cargo, but one day he went home to his wife, Nancy, with a smile on his face. He found her at the back door, where she had been dyeing pleces of cloth to be cut fnto strips for rag carpst. On the clothes line hung a grand array of colored strips, and the cochineal had dyed Nancy's Arms clear to the elbows. The captain sat dowm on the doorstep and remarked that the garden nesded more rain, and for a \Wouple of minutes the wife continued her ‘Wwork without answer. Then she began Wiping the Iye off her fingers as far /jossible, and said: /, | “Blisha Hopewell, it you ever steal corn e hull town of Salem will know it in an hour. ; Your hose is twitchin' and your ®yes have got a squint, and that means that somethin’' has happened. Where is the brig bound to this trip?" “You'll jest have time to make that car- P while I'm gone,” ho answered. “Then it'll be made in the tabin of bound for Bordeaux, Nancy, and the news is that the Portuguese have Eone into piracy good and strong. If that's so, then they’ll be watchin' off the ©oast and skulkin' all along the Bay of Biscay.” - “And what of ItT' she asked, ‘Hiisha, When we met them pirate crafts two years 880 dia 1 faint away and fall over?" he heartily ex- ¥y mot be so lucky this time. I'll toll yo what I'll do, If You'll stay home and 'tend to things I'll bring yo back & patr of ear-rings wuth all of §. “Don't waste your time, Elisha. All I've @0t o o is to put down the winder our- teins, turn the cat outdoors und see that the fire is out, and I shall be .aboard ‘Mary Ann.' I'm not achin' to meet any more pirates, but if they come I shan't Jump overboard till some of the rest of you lead the way." Captain Elisha heaved a sigh and mut- tored something about obstinate women ®ad the fate of Lot's wife, but the discus- #ion was ended. When the “Mary Ann" went salling away Nancy was mistress of her cabin, and she was busy with her earpet-rags before the New England coast Was out of sight astern. The voyage w almost without event untfl the brig wi Within a hundred miles of Cape Finisterro, Which was her landtall. Then, one night : she wuknllpplnl through the waters An even keel before a light breeze, with Captain Ellsha pacing the deck in his Wateh, Nancy suddenly appeared on deck. It lacked only a few minutes to midnight. “Bes here, Elieha,” she sald In very sober 'fln-n “I've had a queer dream.” “'Bout home and the cat?’ he - tnty queried. nE “It's & more serfous thing, Elish: 10 woman to belleve In dreams an and soe ghosts, and you know Was & queer dream. I'm all in a tremble over it." “By Josh, then, but that's funny!" ex- flatmed the captain, as he regarded her wmore seriously. “This was the dream,” she sald, as she Jooked about mervously. “I saw :“vo ships fighting. One was a brig and flew & black flag, and the other was an Fnglish mer- ehantman with many men aboard, I dia Mot wes tho end of the fight, but the dream changed and I saw open boats at sea— | th¥ee, four, five of 'em. The people in the Boats were English, and there were soldiers, #aflors hnd women and chfidren. Eltsha, @8 true as I live I belleve that some terrible thing h:‘- happened!” “But {t might have been a thousan "l'i.?‘ sald, s t think so. I bolleve that mer- ohantman was one of the English India #hips, and that the pire was a Portu. Suese. This would be about the track of the India ships, wouldn't 1t? “Exactly that” ‘““Then, Elisha, I beg of you te heave brig to untfl daylight, I'm almost con:‘l‘: that we'll see those boats by sunrise,” “By Josh! Nancy, but am I to lose a fale wind for four or five hours on sccount of & woman's dream?": shouted the cap- tain. “But are we not making five knots an Elisha. You wouldn't be that cruel those poor people afloat to battle sea. Who knows that anyons is afloat? only your dream." g heard the children walling." 'y Hopewell was far from being an : woman. Never had the captain on her 5o agitated before, and, after look- &t her curiously for a moment, he sald: d Josh! Nancy, but I'll heave the brig ‘n'a.u will 56 what comes of ft.” ave the necessary orders, much to he wonderment of the men of his watch, ahd then the mate was called and the m In his charge. The hours from t to dawn were qufet ones, though . the brr ‘9 grew stronger as the night ad- yanced, and when dawn came at last an Angry sea was getting up, and there were indications that half a gale would be blow- ing before noon. The captain and Nancy ware on deck at the first signa of dawn, and, A8 the light spread over the mea, the ‘Who had been sent (o the masthead to sur- vey the waters cried down to the deck: “Bouts to the northwest of us, captain— "-3" off the larkoard bow!" *F knew it—I knew it, Elisha!" whispered Nancy, us she clutched the vail for sup- “By Josh! but you did, Nancy!" Re re- jlied, and he then hailed the man to know 10w many boats there were. “Five, sir, and es the wind and sea are agin ‘em they are driftin’' away to leeward Bome of 'em are makin' signals.” “All right—come down. We'll run up the flag to let 'em know they are seen, and then we'll bear down and pick 'em up. Nancy, you look as if you needed & bowl Of oAtnlp tea. What in the name of lberty &Fe we goin' to do with a!l those people?™ _“We'll make room fur ‘em semehow, L Blisha,’ she answered. “I told you it was @réam, but I believe it was a vision sent 1 heaven. Look at the sky and the | In two hours from this no boat can (The “Mary Ann' changed her course, in half an hour was up with the first The five were strung out for a dis- of a mlle, and it was the work of Arue sallor to get them under his lee and people on board in safety. It took three 1o accomplish 1t, as elght women and jx chlldren and two wounded men had ©ome up In & sling, and there were sixty- people in all. As the last bost was d of her last occupant and set adrift, the brig pitching bows unde You may have read the story in part. Bombay ship “Eastern Star, | discovered that she must soon founder, and the officers who had recelved serious hurts wete brought away. The boats were terri- bly crowded, and thers was a shortage of ‘water and provisions in each one, and but for the appearance of the “Mary Ann" there must have been great sufforing, even if the gale had spared them. “By josh and by josh! but how on earth are we to foed and sleep ‘e exclaimed Captain Elisha, as he hunted up Nancy in the orowded cabin. “Don't worry, Elisha,” she calmly re- plied. “We can manage somehow.' It bad been the first idea to put in to the nearest port, but the captaln and pas- sengers of Eastern Star provalled upon Captain Hopewell to make for England. He would be short of provisions and water, and all must sufSer discomfort, but the grateful people expressed a willingness to put up with anything rather than be landed among people who would have no welcome for them, even as victims of misfortune. A true course was lald for the English Channel. After midnight the wind began to lose strength, and by sunrise there was only a moderate breeze. Breakfast had been served after a fashion, when & sall was sighted to the east. But little attention was pald to the stranger until it was realized that he was making a course to head the brig. Then he was given a careful look! and It was the captaln of the lo: Bombay ship who finally sald: “Captain Hopewell, tha/ chap Is a pirate ~the same one who attacked me! I can make out where he has patched the shot holes drilled in his canvas, and he's made & rought job of repairing his hull.” The news that another pirate had been sighted flashed through the brig, and men bégan cursing and women lamenting. So far as could be judged, the rover was the switter eraft. “There isn’t any show for us,” sald the British captdin, as he noted that the pirate was making more sall. “We must stand with folded arms to bave our throats cut.” “Then, by josh, but we won't]" ex- claimed Captain Hopewell, as he looked around on the pale-faced men. “If that pirate captures Mary Ann it will be only after a fight that he'll long remember. Who's with me to hold out to the last?" ‘Everybody here s willing to fight,” answered the other captain, “but you have nelther cannon nor musket “Let's ull go Into the cabin and talk ft over with Nancy. If there's a way to dodge or beat this pirate she'll tell us In fve minutes. There was a councll of war in the cabin, and if Nancy didn't preside she was at least given a chance to state her views. Her views led up to a plan which was speedily put into execution. Among the rescued passengers were four or flve pistols, but these were not to be depended on In comparison with muscle. The women and ohildren were to remain in the cabin, and every abfe man was to keep the deck and fight for his life. With the crew of the Mary Ann added to the number of the rescued men there was a total of fifty-four defenders. Captain Hopewell he slapped his leg and exclaimed: By Josh, then, but we'll show that feller & Yankee trick which will pull his eyes wide open." ‘There were not enough belaying-pins and captans-bars to go around, and the cargo was broached for good oak staves to arm the remainder. When the pirate fired a gun and broke out his flag all but the regular crew of the Mary Ann disappeared in the forecastie or leaped down the hatches upon the cargo. Scarcely had the signal been given to surrender when the brig was brought to the wind. Then the pirate shortened sall to board her. To run along- side was better than boat work In the opinion of those cutthroats. As thelr craft drew near she found only the ordinary crew of a peaceful trader in sight, and her men grinned over the easy capture. When she finally floated alongside and made fast s dogen rufflans, led by her captain, scrambled over the brig's rail, and the leader brandished a huge knife and shouted: “Money! Money! Bring all the money you have, or every ohe of you shall walk the plank!™ He wanted money, but he got something Ise. Captain Hopewell gave the signal reed upon, and next instant the decks wers alive with men who were hitting right and left and hitting hard. Tal com- pletely by surprise, the pirates were panio- stricken, but as they retreated to their own vessel the English captain shouted: “After them, my lads,.and drive them into the seal!" It was a strange fight that followed. As fast as & pirate was knocksd down his Every passenger and sallor fought with a thirst for vengeance. In twenty minutes time Afty-four men, depending almost solely upon*bludgeons, had defeated a crew of seventy desperate and well-armed cut- throats. More than two-thirds of the rover's crew were stretched on deck when the remainder surrendered. When they had been secured it was found that elght of those who had gone down were dead, and that two of the “Eastern Star's” men had been killed and four wounded. Captain Hopewell had led one contingent, and the Englishman the other, and thelr ringing battle cries and stout strokes had kept their men up to desperate work. They came out of the fray blood-stained and in tatters, but neither had received a wound of con- sequence. The women and children, who had been warned to Keep to the cabln, remained there only until the decks of the “Mary Ann" were clear of the pirates. Then every soul, even to the child of §, came on deck to witness the battie, and, led by Naney, they cheered encouragement to husbands and brothers who were wielding the stout oak sticks, They were there to welcome the victors after the fight w. won, and Captain Elisha kissed his wife before them all, and rather sheepishly ex- claimed: “By josh, then, but I jest couldn't help " It was & cheaply won victory. The plrate oraft was comparatively mew and well- found, and in its hold was found plunder to the value of £4000. There were enough provisions aboard to last the English party to London, and enough sallors among them to man the prise. Hefore sundowa the tratufer was made, and she was heading Ber course. Captatn Blisha and Jancy wers not for- gotten in the \eave-tuking. Jowels and money were offered them oo every band, but the captain suawered for both by say- “By josh, thei feelings, and we're culy sorry do more!” England had a great hanging day a few months loter when those pirate pris- oners were convioted. There were thirty- we've got hearts and we couldn't THE OMAHA Shoes for Men, Wo-~ men « Boys The best Men's Shoes that mouey can buy is to be found in our line at $2.90. We'll never sell you anythin too oheap be good, but wil always sell ‘inu what’s good at the lowest possible prices vhat can be asked for them. e've brought out a line of men's at $2.90 that far eclipse aoything ever shown for #3.50 and &4 00. Ttey are made of box and velour calf, also vici kid; in all the Iatest lasts, and They are shoes th: made on genuvine Goudyear welts are worth 83.50 and 8. Our price for a medium-price shoe, Made of vici kid in lace, kid or patent leather tips, good heavy soles—sold by others for $2, our price.. Just recelved from the factory several cases of Women's Warm Slippers, fur trimmed ‘‘Juliettes,’” in red and black . \ .$1.00 $2.90 Here's a Ladies’ Shoe at $1.50 that’s hard to beat $I'SOI Suits Made of the new etamines, cheviots and broadcloths, Women's Clever Walking Suits at $15 Women’s T ailor-made They are made of the best Scotch mixtures, in different shades— a special value .......e ous ing—suite that would be Women's Swell Shoes for the Boys. The best boys' shoe on earth for the money is our solid cosco calf shoe, the foughest and most durable leather known for the money that we sell them at, a positive saving of 20 per cent. Sizes 9 to13....... «uuun vessves O8O Sizes 134 102....ccvievneeeneess 1,10 Sizes 2§ to 84..........0000vee. .. 128 Men’s Hats ‘What's the use of buying a hat in a haphasard sort hion at the first place you happen to come across? What's,worth buying is worth studying. important that you should get the best your money can ot fi That Are Extra Values It's just buy in a/kat as jn anything else. We want your hat patronage—we're going to win it if your judgment of best values is as good as we think it fs. What do you pay—$150, $2.00, $2.50 or $3.007 usually pay $2.50 we'll give you a hat for $1.50 equally as good. Or it you have been in the habit of paying 4.0 or | Lot 1, $Z.50 value, at $4.90 .00 you'll find our $.00 line ter than you've been getting. she queried without Jifting her b the last of " “Don’t get soft in the head, Elish: “But ye are. You had that dream, and you suggested that plan to capture the pirate, and I'll be jiggered if ye ain't wuth more'n any thirteen women in Salem! “Nonsense, Elisha! 'Tend to that chart or we'll be strikin’ a shoal HIS WIFE WAS Excess of Sodium Fat Man to Worry Perapire. SALTY Caused the “I don't know what in the world can be the matter with my wite these days,' said @ fat man to his corpulent friend. They were taking a heating glass of beer to cool oft on one of those hot days last summer in a quiet corner of the Five O'Clock club. “She’'s not sick abed, I hope,” ‘was the sympathetio reply of his friend. *No, she is around all right and seems to be in the best of health and spirits But she has got so lately that the salt just simply oomes out of\her every time I get her angry or excited. L noticed it first when I kissed her not long ago0 in making up & little spat we had. And when I spoks about it she said she had noticed it for some time and had tasted so salty to herselt that it made her thirsty.” The other fat man braced up in his chalr and showed the deepest intersst. “I know, I know,” he broke in. “My wife has only just got over it. Don't your wife's lips taste like rock salt every time you kiss her?” “Rock salt? Like saltpeter, sometimes. But that is when she's in a bad temper. Why, every hot spell we have she per- spires so much salt that it gets into her eyes and blinds her.” “I've been through*it with my wife and know all about it. The physicians call it hyperhidrosis, but it's worse. That means to perspire too much, but this ‘salty’ wife disease—and, by the way, it is dangerdus— doesn’'t seem to have a scientific name. It leads to sudden death unless taken care of The fat man with his “salty wife" un- cured @rained his glass of beer nervously and asked the fat man with the cured “salty wife" to tell him about it “You see, it's this way,” began the one whose wifo was safely out of the plekle, “sodium chloride or common salt really ex- ists in every animal tissuo and fluld and is present in the blood In tolerably con- stant proportions. It is intreduced with the food, either as & part of it or as a flavor and promotes digestion. Now, in the body there goes on constantly phenomens do- scribed as osmosis—a filtering of the life fluld through the tissues or membranes. The salt helps this; acts as & foroe. It also heips to keep up the solution of the food. When the amount taken in is commensu- rate with the needs of the body It Is car- tled off through the eliminating organs. When any cause mars this sense of propor- tion the excess of salt seeps through the sweat glanis and we have a ‘salty wite,’ who must be treated on & strictly hyglenio plan in order to be well again."—Chicago ‘Tribune o That Would Settle It “Just think of #, George! Both your malden aunts are comin’ to make us & visit tomorrow, and cook has just left.” “Can't you get them to postpone thelr BUILDS AN “ECHO” Chicage Gemfus Accomplishos W Manutacturers Sald Was ible. ORGAN it Impeo Although he is first of all a theatrical manager, John J. Murdock, who directs the affairs of the Masonic Temple theater, Chicago, has found time during the last five years to bulld two organs that had time and again been declared “impossible™ by old time organ manufacturers, who based their opinions upon years of prac- tical experience and numerous faflures in the line of Mr. Murdock's endeavers. The successful results of these years of endeavor are now belng used in the pro- duetion of what is probably the most widely known of all vaudeville eot: namely, “The Girl with the Auburn Hair." This act necessitates the use of a pipe organ which must be portable, It necessi- tates also the use of an organ be made to sound as from afar off, an “‘echo’ organ. Organ mak: when requested by Mr, Murdock to bulld either of these two in- struments, told him it could not be dome. Mr. Murdock then set to work, and after months of patlent study completed the only portable pipe organ in the world. It is in six pleces—the “big" organ weighing 2%35 pounds; three smaller pleces, each welghing 1,640 pounds; the “key” organ, weighing 1,20 pounds, and a smaller plece, welghing 900 pounds. It has been in use by “The Girl With the Auburn Halr" for several months. It took Mr. Murdock three years to overcome the “impossibilities” in the con- struction of the “‘echo’ organ. The organ | stationed In the rear of the theater, or in the balcony, and it s operated from the stage by the organist accompanying the act, and by the same set of keys with which the regular pipe organ is played It has been used in the Masonic Temple theater in conjunction with “The Girl Witk the Auburn Hair” act for the last week and has added much to the beauty of the act's musical setting. Bpeaking of the difficulties he had to overcome in the construction of these two organs Mr. Murdock said: “In the construction of the echo organ the hardest thing to Overcome was.the regulation of the air supply. We finally devised the following method: First we use a amall magnet, which releases air from & chamber into a .small bellows the size of one in a speaking doll. When that small bellows is inflated it strikes & pin, ralsing the pin, which permits alr te escape from another chamber five times as large as the first. The first hols allowing the air to go Into the bellowa is about the size of a darning needle. When the second bellows is Inflated it ralses a second pin, five times as big as the first, which releases air through a small vent. We repeat this process of pins, air holes and bellows five times, each time getting five times the volume of air and five times the size of hole through which the air es- capes. The fifth time the air is allowed to escape Into the organ pipes. By this time it has increased sufficiently in volume to make the pipe speak. The echo organ 8 operated altogether by electricity, Every- thing is under absolute control of the organist on the stage. The extremely mel- low tone of the echo organ we got by the use of hoods on top of the pipes.” Mr. Murdock is working on another in- vention, & combined organ and plano. When this instrument is completed Mr. Murdock thinks it will revolutionize mus- teal matters—Chgicage Record-Herald Ia & Cluss Alome. No other pills on earth can equal Dr. for Dver Bo It you good and oftentimes bet- GRABBING AN OPPORTUNITY It's the Chap W Keeps His Thinker Busy that Gets On in the ‘World, Bome years ago a clerk in a small store in a western ¢ity grew tired of his bicycls and advertised it for sale. At 9 o'clock the next morning a buyer came, and the wheel was sold. At 9:30 came another inquiry, and at 10 two more. They were told they ‘were too late. Then the clerk got to thinking and when two more men came to buy he dld not tell them his wheel was sold. He made some excuse for not showing it and asked ‘Hem to call the next sfternoon. At luuch time he hurried to & newspaper cfice and a vertised to buy a second: hand blcycle. Then came more inquirers, who wers put off as had been the last two. The next day there was a procession of sellers of wheels. With each the clerk agreed upon a price, to be pald it one day's trial proved satisfactory. And there was 8lso a procession of buyers, to whom one by one were sold at an advance, the, wheels left for trial. Thus the clerk found himself doing & profitable little bicy- cle business. Then his employer objected to the lo of his time and to having the place clu tered up with second-hand wheels. So the clerk thought Some more and at noon ar- ranged with a boy who worked across the street at a little lce cream stand with shed behind it, to recelve and store the bioycles and help sell them. Meanwhile the advertising went on and presently the clerk left his place to devote all his tim to second-hand bioycles. His business grew and from dealing in old he passed to selling new bicycles. To- day, according to The World's Work, he and his partner, the ice cream boy, own a large automobile business and are already wealthy. The moral of this story is that there are always opportunities for those who have the wit to recognize them—those who intel- ligently consider the facts before them. When the clerk had once sold his bicycls it was easy for him to stop thinking. He had done what he wanted to do. But he kept on thinking. He saw that there existed an uns .pplied domand—for & man to bring toge'uer buy- ers and sellers of second-hand bioycles. He supplied that demand. He grasped the op- portunity and made the most of it and marched on to fortun Opportunities are always occurring. The trouble is that so many, men do not con- sider the meaning of facts before them. They do one thing and stop there. They never do any real thinking and so do not recognige opportunities that strike them in the face, and go through life complaining that they ‘never had a chance."—Chicage Inter-Ocean. His Master Stroke. “George Ferguson/' sald his wite, look- ing with crushing scorn at the gaudy rug he had bought at a special = “I wonder if ever in your life you knew a good bargain when you saw it!" The case was critical. Mr. Ferguson saw that something bold and decisive must be done, and his mind worked quickly. “Why, yes, Laura” he sald. “When I wanted & wife I picked out the nicest, sweetest little woman in the whole world, and I got the best barguin any man ever gof. ¢ * * There, (here, pet!™-—Chicago Tripune. Accused Murderer Hanged by Mob. 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The latest soclety spasm is a baby party—in which fat, falr and forty-four or more don frocks which wont hide their garters, let their hair down end pull some other things up, and presumably impersonate the children they once were. The men wear long stockings and short pants, a Lord Fauntelroy wesket and a smile. There is really no !mpropriefy in this custom when misappropriated by a male except the probable exhibition of bdulbous bare bones which might better be swathed in flowing trouserloons; but think of mama gowned and beribboned as a baby! A light blue frock, maybe, cut so low and so high that extremes come mighty near meeting and even the electric lights sorter snicker when she swings! And they play the old games—"Pussy Wants a Corner,” “Clap- n-and-Clap-Out,” “Pillow" and™‘Tag" and other things which are as tasteless as the latest thing in breakfast food when in- dulged in by children, but well calculated to start a conflagration which only the divorce court can squelch when particl- pated in by grown-ups who are wise. What a pity 'tis the Lord don't put some people to work.—Bill Barlow's Budget. S—————— Charged with Steallng Letters. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Alexander Hufi superintendent of the forelgn mail branc! of the New York 3 today on a el g embeasling letters from the malls. ‘was sent to Jall In de- hll‘hnf $3,000 ball. 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