The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1904, Page 11

‘id GOLDEN SHIP UNDER A BL4OK FLAG. Th “T'm caught like @ rat ina trap, What e Iron Pirate By Max Pemberton. whole extent of hia made up my mind oa . I Was aware @o ye want? Name it, and I'll know| Was bow we stand!” “I want my life-my life, now that I refuse to sign that paper.” “Yes,” he said, “that's a fair request, | *4, though I can’t say it's in my power to make it that way,” “It's in your power to stand with me; you can give the order that no man's to lay a finger on me, and you will!” He thought « moment, looking straight down the barrel of the Cok. Then he eaud: “Yes, I can’t avold that. Yul give® you that." “And my lberty on the first occasion offering?” “No,” he replied, very slowly and ®ernly, “That's more than the devil Bimself could offer you, ‘They'd tear We to pieces.” ‘There was no doubt that he sald right fn this, and I reflected that I could gain nothing whatever by holding out, There was just the hope that he would @bide by his word in the matter of my Personal safety, but mete I could nat look for. The men could only die, and if he gave me freedom his own men would Fequite him $s he said, I thought of this, and put the pistol down; then I offered him my hand, and he jumped Up trom bis seat, grasping it with « ant seat clutch altogether painful to bear, While he dragged me to the Might and looked at me with that curious ex- Pression I had noticed when first I met him in the room, “You're & sound plank of @ boy,” he said; “shake my hand, young ‘un, shake ft hearty; go on; don’t you think I Mind; shake it right #0, you beauty of @ box!” / As we paveed out onto the deck to- gether @ group of sailors advanecd toward us, One big American cri “Has the boy signed, captain?’ t your jaw, or I'll shut it for yo Teplied Biack, “Is the boy your affair?” the affair of all of us, I cal- ¢erlate, an' some of ys wishes to know particler if he's signed or un Black was smothered in anger, but | sel: he showed It only with that terrible growling of the voice and hig posrid calmness, “Oh, you want to know, do yout ‘Which of you, might I ask, is particler |; @nxious about my business?’ There were thirty or forty of them Found. and they pressed the closer at thor he continued: Se, gustan o makes Complaint sted ht here.” four Joy the leader; but ‘** suddenly snatched my revolver Gred ta, and for ead on the hed to awe the reat of the motionless, dumb oleate Renae aeey Be -v h ied. “Now, if me Til id pou over the ship. 5 wi , ci availed myself of the jom, and the inspection beg: The most part of the vease! tion was contained in a toy deck erection round there were two stu; of cabins with wide running betw. them and protr 80 that it was aeauy compantonwes Mite tot thin whieh led mway aft of this whic! to the cabin I had occ » the rooms for ‘or certain of the privileged were all and I learned that & big fo'castie, it was given over en’ 'y to the negroes, with om the white men would not serve. hege superior fellows, as they thought themselves, had mmodation in the Pe ere thera was @ cab Mg all round it; yet with the small part of the whole vessel de: voted to quarters was noteworthy, a: waa designed, I did not doubt, for some pre h Pot th learn bey THREE PRIZES—$10 for best anecdote of child life; $10 for best child's (not over 7) story In child's own language; $5 for beet list of baby words and thelr English equivalents. None over 160 words in length, Send letters to Mar- ret Hubbard Ayer, Evening lorid, New York City, eat | By Margaret Hubbard Ayer HE contest ts proving once more T how remrakably Inventive {s the child mind, No wonder Froebel and Pestalossi devoted a lifetime to the study of the ways of ohiidhood or that solentists trace many of our un- consdfous habits to the baby days of the human race. At @ great banquet in his honor Dar- yin was suddenly asked why in every Tace on the face of the globe a nod signified assent and a shake of the ot | head meant dissent, and the two were © | perfectly understood by the entire hu- black, yet ry could’ have peamped hin otek Sete Ger on him a heat @ learned. pat os te ince nat he my surmi ‘was con- frmed by the ‘hostzr, who remembered me at last, and said: “Do you see that iittle fellow? Well, mius of this ship. dea: dumb, and no man has ever hea & word from his lips; but he design: our engines, and he runs them, with his three sons, It's va gpd Pitiable to see the man's 4 for anything but that infernal machinery, He never eaves meat and drink to him. make money, he doesn't want going fo Won't come, but « about the wheels, man in atl as would it steam for maritime ves- id Black him carte blanche ideas on this ship. You those great c! ped ends of oura we bave nothing but gas—three million feet, at a pressure of between two and three atmospheres. Wh: ie’ idea of the century; fo: Do of coal burned by Jantic liner we don’t burn a pou We for ten days without te world wil po inoue wor! in our bunk. . Save for that, ‘and’ Kart Remey’ there wouldn't be Ji us with ere isn't a orulser that can live with the thirty knots we can iow; and there isn't Iine-of-battle ship swimming that could get the bet- ter of us while our engines are moving. ‘48 big claim, yntll you see us over wan put inte a Tevelation, for with all the terrors was al feem to have missed was to have met Another tneder await off the <8 righ coast. So we of next cabin. Led aia” etd tails See ae quarter.” cried hi ¥ ro ‘neat, lett “ot (fo be continued) Petes sicentaat A HOME-MADE MOUSE TRAP, & string, a bit the bait he will ne ROWING ON A BICYCLE. Here ts @ novel sort of bicycle, hoya! will Interest you very much, one © chance to keep up| (| horizontal bars of the bicyele frame, And handle bar is s9 arranged that the bloycle ix driven by a move- ment of the handle ber very similar to the movement of rowing. There are two foot resta on, the front you think, but walt! fn acth man family, id The great ectentist, without a mo ment's hesitation, traced the motions of the head back to the baby who shakes bis head and struggles to get away from the food which ls offered him and which he does not want, and fhe ped with which he assente to take ‘he food he prefers, fora or baby’s head Be At ean te ‘or a shake of the head has meant life and death in times of trouble and the baby Invented it. No wonder he Is iia ‘Rb cayingh tnd Goings are of im: i an > oer ‘ana wort studying, as is seen in these coutes story in The World to-night and Susie’s Letter. Y PAPA was reading Johnnie's M he egys te me, “Susie, why don't you try for @ prise?” so T-aays, “TR try, papa.” Oh, joys! Mo get a prise? It would be @ great surprise, Well, dear lady, there are eight of us; papa, mamma, Jimmy, Alick (twigs), Jessie, Susie (that’s me), Joe and Annie, That's all, A big crowd, eh? Well, dear lady, Joe got diphtheria four weeks ago, and then Annie, then mamma, then Alick, then Jessie, then me; and the Board of Health doctor comes and puts @ paper on the door and keeps us all in the house three weeks, How would you like It? Ain't them doctors mean to keep us shut up like this and not let us out? And our vacation iil soon be finished, too, Ain't {t a shame, @ beastly shame? Good night, lady, SUSIE LEIGHTON, No, 18 Conover street, Brooklyn. A Youthful Acrobat, ARRIE ADELE, founyears of age, ¢ is @ very thoughtful young lady, She enjoys a theatrical perform- ance as well as her elders, and upon arriving at home gives very creditable reproductions of the actions of the various characters on the stage that have caught her fancy, Mamma was surprised one evening to find Carrie Adele sprawling on the floor in a very undignified attitude; her feet were Planted firmly on the carpet, her knees slightly bent, her head bowed #0 as to touch the floor, and after one or two ineffectual efforts she succeeded in turning @ somersault. “Why.” sad mamma, “I am surprised at you, Carrie Adele. Little girls must not turn somersaults,” The laugh of delight fdlowing the accomplishment of her purpose faded from “Doll's” (that's Carrie Adele's) then abe sald: ‘ “Well, I'll walt tii I grows up, then.” Mrs. A. BAUER, No, G5 Bagle avenue, New York. The Moon’s Musio, Y LITTLE girl is three and a half years old; puts on her shoes and atockings every morning, then Sys, “Give me a penny Ull I get The World paper, I come right beck’ When we had the thunderstorm the other day she sald: “What's that nolset I paid no attention at first, but she insisted, #0 I said; “It was God scolding naughty children.” “No,” she sak, “that’s the moon making music,” Of a dark dress she says, “That's dirty one,” H. A. ASHE, No, 88 De Kalk avenue, Brooklyn. A Splendid List. NCLOSED find list of some words | used by our boy until he was five years old: Milk was bumma; water, vi i shoes, hages; fat, hafta; knife, hoff; fork, hong; smart, farnt; self! holt; behave, begahagn; cup, cook; saucer, Plate, patty; dirt, guck; amoke, fonk; turtle, corkle; strawberry, kawbiddy; twelve, cholp; scholar, cholly; stove, kobe; drink, . Mrs, FORTUNE. No, 9 Vroom street, Jersey City. By a Child of Six. HE Lonely Little Bird. — Once upon # time there was @ little bird that lived in a tree, His mamma died and he didn’t have no one to bring” him anything to eat. Bo every time any one threw crumbs out of the win- Gow to the bird the big birds that lived in the tree with the poor little bird would run and get them all and face and she seemed decidedly crést- ine would not get any, Flowers and Grinkets. 4s] VERY morn some one brings thee flowers, huh? hummed the Noon Customer, 34 start « scandal and my wite'd lee me,” grinned the Noon Customer. cwelly that's nor 2" wrong, but hat can you do when they talk like a father to your” “Lots of romance here, T suppose?” ot for mine here! No of love On toast. I taize ‘There \ as short orde my Laura Jean at home, Snat one case” —— “Bay on! Say on!" "Fresh young fellow used to eat here regularly. Sized him up as a village nd #7 with plenty of talk First thing you good friends. He iold me the ead story of hie lifer been here only # few months and couldn’t get acquainted, Si? he liked my lo¢ka"—— "Td diame him.” “Well, he used to bring fovers ove casionally, and attér mw while ty get) evenings. He gave me & Mttle locket once—cheap, too, I gues—and shell, as ¥ started to bai T got an ideg. I took that ring off the bbon I'd hung it on out of eight, and ‘iipped it in between an oyster and the Wrell, and then served ‘em, “Never pretended to notices, but while werving the fiext table I heard this girl tive & little ery and ede seemed to think that's the hy" t trthen he ng I gave she says, ‘an swimming! ramebody els 90: fay + He 'sat there, re green in turn: fo attract att a. ‘Why, hete's my ‘ou when you left > aye. adder'n I'd peent @ white and t ays door with | explain without! about him, ont! Pplataing, as, hut’ asked | Rests ‘Luna LZWASSER: and Youths Mon’s and Youths’ sin Gola fa fon #0 50 6.00 to 16.50 Lado” Bc Sk Taltta Lada’ Ye sts Sturt Walst foo t Suits ina $0 to 2808 | 00 10 15.00 A, Pe Ec or write. ey Havre? A.M. toT P.M. Sunday, 10 to 19, Dr. KING & KING'S P*fmaicee'™ ‘6 WEST HTH BT. NEW YORE Ctr. AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC , ee. 2. uw SAM BERNARD comedy, with Noste, The Girl from Kay's. OVENS TO-NIGHT AT 8.20 With Leo Dirich- Military Mad, Pine AND F INDIA. rom pas FE xl Lavan A MINUTE, Garr FLAMES, DURBAR RR. T. express 3 minutes, re & 3 parks Cnequaiied “by. fettaiees” Atk neighbor. Park 188 oh ‘A FIGHT POR LOVE.” Bo one day he went and thought he would try and get some, and on the way he met a little chicken, and the chicken asked the birdie where he was going. He sald he was going to try and get some crumbs. Go the little chicken told him not to bother as the other binds had eaten it all up, So the litte bind went home, and in @ little while he died ail alone in the big tree. FLORENCE LEASENDALBE, No, 299 Summit avenue, Jersey City, Brotherly Love, DMIE, aged nine, hie sister Dor- E othy, aged five, at a children's hop in the country: Fond Mother—Edmie, dear, ask your little sister to dance, She has no partner. Egmie Dear—Ah, gwan, I won't waste my time. Mra. L. HERSH, Bonngll's Cottage, Gehroca Lake. Don’t Forget the Calves, LITTLE boy, aged six or seven, whom his mother was teaching at home, was writing all he knew about « cow, what she was good for, &o. Go he wrote, “Butter and mile and when dead give and meat.” #0 another little brother, whom no person ever took notice of, as he was always considered dull, chimed in and said, “Mamma, did you forget the it~ tle calves?’ Mre. F, CAMEROX. AMUSEMENTS. STOCK and splendié vaudeville Bit. RIVAL DIDATES.” with Big Stock Co. 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