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By W. CLARK
Copyright. 1897. by P. F. Collier.
CHAPTER V. Continued.
"Leo bow J" camo down the answer,
panting, mado for tho crosstroos.
When tho brig soared to tho height
of tho white-headed sea, tho sail was
"visible In tho glass. Pope looked and
saw threo spires rocking solemnly. A
full-rigged ship was sailing southwest
hull down, and Captain Popo called to
tho wheel:
"Lot her go off a couple of points.
"Weather braces, Mr. Crystal 1 wo'll
tako a look at that gentlemen."
Sail was trimmed; tho brig rushed
"with each heave, roaring whlto Into
tho green and freckled hollows. Sho
'left a path as brilliant aa sunshlno
iastera, and Crystal, watching tho men
jdrag upon tho braces, marveled to
.himself that Popo should dream of do
ling business In the English channel.
I But the truth Is, Popo had como to
J3ea 111 equipped In his lazaretto, by
which I mean ho was very meanly
,'aupplled with stores. Fresh wator ho
(had taken In In abundance but not
Ivery much to eat for the cabin or tho
forecastle. Ho had therefore resolved
that ho would fill his larder as he
went along by helping himself from
tho holds of vessels' he passed or
overhauled. This was quito conslst-
ent with the traditions of the pirates,
and in sober truth Popo could not
iiavo determined otherwise, for after
Tio had paid Staunton four hundred
pounds cash and tho bills, and ad
vanced money to his sailors, purchased
-powder, rum and bo on, the procoeds
Jrom tho sale of Iho plato had dwin
dled alarmingly, and ho was short of
money when ho began to think of pro
visions. Tho vessel they had altered their
course for held on very stately and
tall, an English East Indiaman, and
ono of tho finest specimens of her
noblo kind.
It had been imagined by the crow
when tho brig's course was altered
He drank
for tho ship behind the sea that some
thing In tho buccaneering way wa3 In
tended. Tho most eager of all -who
glanced aft, tho most expectant in
expression, was the boatswain. Hap
pening to como near Captain Pope
when sail was again being trimmed
after tho brig had been brought to her
course, ho said, "Had you meant to
speak her, sir? Sho'a a fino vessel.
I'll allow" hero ho swore "that
there's specie enough in her to sink
tis by a strake."
Pope answered tho boatswain Grln
dal thus "Thero may bo gold in her
to sink us by a strako as you say;
hut our men aro undisciplined; they
aro but thirty, and you may Bwear
she's a full ship, and I havo yet to
find out that all hands of us will be
willing to plunder her."
Grlndal turned his evil eyes over
tho decks and answered, "I think
you'll find 'era all wlllln'. Where's
tho risk? Wo'vo a letter of marque,
ain't we, sir?"
"Now you shall hear tho truth pres
ently," exclaimed Pope sternly, with
that strong air of command and power
which rarely failed him when ho dealt
with seamen; and ho gave Grlndal an
order which dispatched bim forward.
Popo took some time to rehearse
and mako up his mind, and frequently
stolo a glanco at tho men. By this
hour It was drawing on to four
o'clock; tho weather had improved. It
still blow a fine sailing breezo, but tho
dingy thickness had been blown out
of tho sky.
"Mr. Crystal (he mlBtered his friend
in times of duty In tho hearing of tho
men; there could not bo two cap
tains), "tell the boatswain to plpo the
whole ship's company aft."
In a few minutes all hands had as
sembled upon tho main-deck a for
midable crowd, a3 they swayed in
their varied, wild, romantic attire
with tho heave of tho plank.
"I've called you aft, my lads," said
Pope with a look round, "to explain
tho nature of this cruiso. I am a gen
tleman of fortune; my friend, Captain
Crystal, who is your chief mate, rows
In tho some boat, so does every moth
er's son of you."
At this a colored man's wondering
face broke into a grin.
Captains
RUSSELL.
Copyright, 1897, by Dodd, Mead & Co.
"Wo'ro not bound to tho Bay of
Campeachy to trado thonco with tho
West Indies, but to plunder ships and
enrich ourselves, so that wo may dis
perse and settlo down and llvo like
gentlemen on our means. In a word,"
ho shouted, flourishing his cigar,
"wo'ro a plrato!"
Ho ceased at this, running his eyes
over tho people among whom there
was a considerable stir, Indicative of n
variety of sensations and passions.
A seaman shouted, "So much tho
better."
Another, "Ha yor guns enough?"
And another, "What was tho good
of that roasting lie about Campeachy?
I'd ha boon right to hear tho truth,"
at which well-turned phraso there
aroso a murmur that lighted up Cap
tain Pope's face.
"I understood you was a letter of
marque, cap'n," said tho boatswain
Qrlndal, who stood a little forward of
tho others. "Not that It matters
though."
"Wo're a plrato; all of you know
what that means. I am a man of few
words; this is what I stand here to
say," said Popo, planting himself firm
ly on outstretched legs, "tho terms are
half tho plunder for the crow and the
brig herself when I've gono ashore
and got enough. If wo tako ton thou
sand pounds out of a ship, flvo thou
sand Is divided among you. Is that
good enough? But who's going to
stop at ten thousand pounds provided
you'ro willing and provo yourselves
men."
Ho paused at this, and a loud hum
of assent wont up. Captain Crystal,
gazing anxiously, saw very easily
that tho hands wero willing. No mur
mur or curse of resentment was audi
ble as though tho fellows had been
duped. But In sober truth tho major
ity had shipped with a clear concep
tion that something moro was meant
by this cruiso than Campeachy and tho
West Indies.
their health.
CHAPTER VI.
The Collision.
The Gypsy was now a pirate, recog
nized as such by her crew, with a
black flag In hor color-locker ready
for hoisting when occasion required.
And when Captain Pope ordered his
men to reassemble on tho main-dock,
It was moro with a view to holding a
council than to making speeches.
First ho told them ho had put to sea
so ill-stocked' with provisions that In a
week they must bo In want; their im
mediate business therefore was to
plunder a ship for food and drink. He
stated that ho had a sufficiency of
powder and shot; moro was always to
bo obtained by plundering small ves
sels. Next day, ho said, tho arms
chests would bo brought on dock, and
tho crew drilled by Mr. Crystal and
Matthow Grlndal in the exerclso of
the cutlass and the cannon.
"There's few of us as wants drill
ing," broke in a harsh voice; "you lay
us alongside, wo'll know what to do."
Captain Pope received this inter
ruption very affably. He then in
formed the men that ho had obtained
private but certain Instructions from
a friend of his who had been his ship
mate in a privateer In 1814, of tho dis
patch of a rich Spanish ship from
Cadiz for tho Manillas. Ho named
tho date of her sailing, and said that
It was bis Intention to cruise In the
path of her course until ho fell in with
her. At this piece of news tho sea
men gavo another loud cheer. Thus
he detained his men whllo ho com
municated his intentions, and listened
to their opinions, which most fre
quently took tho form of huzzas, till
it grow as dark as night, whereupon
they lighted lanterns, that tho crew
might bo divided into watches; and
whllo this was doing Popo sung out
to his servant to fill a bucket of rum
and bring it on deck, and give it to
tho men that they might mako them
solves punch in abundance.
It was now the second dog watch;
very dark but clear and finely span
gled. Tho light of tho lanterns sat
liko a square of luminous fog in tho
yawn of tho main hatch, toward which
Captain Popo advanced. Ho looked
down, then seeing Crystal pass out of
the companion-way, he put his log over
and descended a flight of stops, from
tho lowest of which he sprang out to
tho deck or platform whero his sailors
wero assembled.
Tho boatswain was nt tho head of
the tablo, rind ho was in tho mlddlo
of a story of somo frlonds of his, sail
ors, who had been robbed of one hun
dred and forty pounds by two women
and a young man despcratoly armed,
dressed up as a woman, when his oyo
lighted on tho captain, who stood un
der tho maln-hntch survoylng tho
scene. The men, seeing their captain,
raised a great, half-drunken nolso of
hurrahs, and Maddlson of tho squint
cried out, "Will you drink with us,
your honor?"
"I'vo como below to do It," says
Pope, advancing to tho table, and
taking n pannikin with a little rum
in It, ho addrosscd tho men. They
wero aa silent as figure-heads whllo
hlB words wero being delivered. Noth
ing troubled tho stillness but Pope's
voice, tho creaking of tho brig's tim
bers, nnd onco or twlco tho squeak of
a rat in tho hold below. Ills speech
was very encouraging; ho said ho
wanted them to make a homo of tho
brig, and to llvo happily together.
They should not want for lclsuro; ho
oxpocted they would bo always prompt
In obeying orders; their lives would
depend upon obedlenco and dispatch;
ho would try and provide them with
plonty to cat and drink, and, as thoy
sailed under tho black flag, tho usual
sea discipline would bo greatly re
laxed. What thoy all wanted was
plenty of money, and that thoy would
get If they fought stoutly and feared
nothing.
All sorts of roaring cries followed
tho captain's address. Tho men wero
flattered by his presence. Ho drank
their health, then to tho success of the
cruise, which ho promised them should
bo too brief to cnablo tho British
crulsors to give them any trouble.
"Now sing songs and bo happy, my
hearties," says ho; and ho went on
deck, tho men shouting their satisfac
tion after him and beating tho tablo
with their pannikins. '
At ten o'clock Captain Popo wont
below. Tho cabin was warm though
tho little skylight was open. In a cor
ner was a Httlo tablo upon which wero
a small compass, a quadrant, and ono
or two other methematlcal Instruments
of a primitive sort; closo besldo it
leaned a bag of charts, ono of which
ho extracted, and, carrying It to tho
tablo in the cabin, fell to musing ovor
It with a pencil In his hand.
All of a sudden, whllo he overhung
tho chart, thoughtfully considering the
winds In that part of tho sea accord
ing to his memory of them, ho was
startled by a loud and fearful cry on
deck, quickly followed by a general
uproar of voices, nmld which he could
hear Qrlndal roaring liko a bull:
"Whero tho devil aro yer coming to?
Starboard yer helium."
Popo sprang from tho table, rushed
to his cabin, seized his sword, and,
thrusting a pistol into his pocket,
bounded on deck. Scarco was his
head clear of the companion-way when
ho was nearly thrown by a violent con
cussion. The Httlo brig heeled, trem
bling to her keelson, with some noise
of splintering aloft and tho seething
patter of fragments of timber, blocks
and tho like launched from a height
into tho quiet water. Tho night was
extremely dark; tho mist had thick
ened Into something liko a fog slnco
two bells.
Shouts wero to bo heard over tho
sldo. A yelling and groaning of voices
In an unknown togue. Close aboard
with her starboard bow caressing tho
sldo of tho Gypsy, whllo her bowsprit
carrying its black wing of jib shot
over tho brig's rail, Uko a branchless
fallen treo, was a vossel somewhat
larger than tho plrato, apparently a
schooner, but It waa so dark that no
one could havo told you tho truo rig of
her. A man holding up a lantern was
shouting in somo unintelligible lan
guage. Somo men wero hauling at tho
ropes, yelping in choruses. Others
ran about the decks as though panic
stricken; In all thero might have been
somo twelve or thirteen men visible
In that ship.
(To bo continued.)
Lesson the Bishop Needed.
Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee has
a story of personal experience to tell
to those who seem swamped in wor
ries. It happened during the first
years of his ministry, when ho was
rector of a Philadelphia church. Tho
parish matters, Boclal and financial,
wero In a bad way, and straightening
them out was slow work. Ho was
distinctly discouraged ono day when,
having gono to Now York on business,
he stopped to look at tho Brooklyn
bridge, thon building. A man, cover
ed with dirt, was working on the abut
ments. "That's pretty dirty work you aro
engaged In," said the bishop.
"Well, yes," answered tho laborer,
"but somehow wo don't think of tho
dirt, but of the beauty which is to
como out of our work."
"It was tho lesson I needed, and I
went back to Philadelphia the better
for it," said Bishop Nicholson. Mil.
waukco Journal.
Easily Explained.
As Dr. Reginald John Campbell, of
the City Templo, London, faced the
densely packed throng of clergymen
of threo denominations assembled
Monday noon at the Presbyterian
building to do him honor, ho turned
to Dr. Bradford, who was about to
present him, and said In an under
tone: "How In the world do you
account for such a multitude of
preachers?"
"Easy enough to explain it," was
tho answer. "Tho Campbells aro
comln'."
"Only an American would put It aa
prettily as that," was the famous Brit
isher's response. Now York Mall and
Express.
RODDERS ROUTED DY DEES,
Plundering Gang Disturbed an Apiary
In a Freight Car.
A few nights ago a gang of railroad
freight robbers descondod on tho Wost
Philadelphia yards of tho Pennsyl
vania railroad. Several freight cars
wero broken open and their contents
scattered around, somo of tho most
valuable goods being tnken away. Ono
car, however, was found with doors
burst open, but nothing missing. In
docd, tho thieves added to tho freight,
hats, coats, Jimmies, and bags of plun
der bolng scattered all over tho floor
of tho car.
An Investigation by tho rnllrond do
tectlvcs showed that Included among
othor freight shipment was an apiary.
Special boxes wero made for tho bees,
which woro on route for Lin field via
tho Philadelphia & Beading railroad
from Philadelphia.
When tho robbers tackled tho boxes
containing tho bees thero must havo
been a genulno surprise. It wns evi
dent tho gang did not pauso, but fairly
flow out of tho car, leaving their cloth
ing and plunder behind.
DEAL IN BOGUS ANTIQUITIES.
Sharpers Have Many Tricks Calcula
ted to Fleece the Unwary.
With tho numerous instances of
duplicity on tho part of dealers In an
tiquities it is not to bo wondorcd that
many men of wealth and culturo aro
looking with suspicion on tho works of
art 'which they havo collected at tho
expenditure of much monoy and effort.
It Is a wlso collector who Is certain
of tho genulnoncss of his collection.
Ono pleco of tho swindlers' work is
tho mnklng of artificial moth holes In
a chair of tho pattern used sovcral
centuries since. It Is a good imita
tion, and has been dilapidated purposo-
ly, a pleco being missing from tho
back. It only requires a fow dozen
moth holes to complete its "ancestral
hall" appearance Thcso aro provided
by means of a tool liko an awl, with
flvo steel points. Hold ovor a likely
part, a smart tap of a wooden mallet
sonds tho points, mado to tho oxact
sizo of a moth hole, Into tho wood.
This procoss is ropcated as many
times as necessary. Then tho moth
holes aro treated to a slight applica
tion of candlo flame, which darkens
the holes inside to the required tint.
FOUGHT SHARK THREE HOUR8.
Dr. Van Valvah's Capture of an 8 1-2
Footer With Rod and Reel.
Dr. John A. Van Valvah, of Sea
breeze, Fla., has distinguished him
self by catching a shark with an or
dinary rod and reel.
Ho was fishing on tho pier when
something caught the bait and darted
off at a speed that sot tho reel to
whizzing whllo the doctor's thumb
was almost cut In trying to chock tho
flsh. Tho shark Anally mado for top
water and then tho doctor saw ho had
a fight before him.
Eight times ho brought the big flsh
in on the beach only to hnvo it dash
oft again. At last tho shark was tired
out and brought to the beach and
gaffed. Nearly three hours wero
consumed In the fight.
Tho shark was 86 feet long and
wolghod between 450 and COO pounds.
Punchinello.
Punch originally camo from Italy,
whoro ho was known as Punchinello,
tho Italian word for clown.
Loss Caused by Empty Bottle.
After picnicking under a haystack,
a party of holiday makers, near Mon
tauban, France, left, an empty ginger
beor bottle standing up on the
ground. Tho sun's rays becamo fo
cused through tho glass, and set tho
stack alight. It was burned to tho
ground.
Orchards In Germany.
Germany has on an avorage 80C or
chaid trees to the square mllo.
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THE FLOODS IN LONDON.
Great Metropolis Suffers Owing to Un
usually High Water.
Dwellers in tho western states of
America are not tho only persons who
suffer from spring floods. Hero is
what nn English paper says of tho ro
cont high wator In London:
"Much dam ago has been caused In
tho low-lying parts of London byj
floods consequent upon tho heavy
rains, nnd a few miles over the boun
dary matters wero ovon worBO. Tho
Bcono In tho metropolis during tho
Uirco days' continuous down pour was
an unusual one. Lord's and tho Oval,
sevoral inches under water, looked
pjpfT:
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The Great Floods,
tho picture of desolation. Tho glamor
and "bravery" of the West End van
ished boforo tho pltllesB rain; and the
stream of fashlonablo womanhood
which winds Itself in nnd out of Ro
gent street and Piccadilly on a normnl
summor day gavo way to a drab,
drenched, and bedraggled sot of busi
ness men hurrying gloomily about
their affairs.
Message From the 8ea.
A Greek flshormnn recently found on
a lonely part oC tho Island of Carpa
thos a hormotlcnlly scaled bottle, con
taining a paper, which read as fol
lows: "2.9, 1702. Tho ship Clown, on
board which wo woro, foundered at tho
beginning of October, 1702. Sho foun
dered so quickly wo barely had tlmo
to got off on tho raft, on which wo
now aro, without food or drink. Who
ever finds this pnpor is begged, In tho
namo of humanity, to forward It to tho
government. Ono of tho castaways,
Manter." This two century old mes
sago has been bought by a Greek
doctor.
New Pittsburg Theater.
Tho above "cut shows a small sec
tion of tho now Nixon Theater, Pitts
burg, which Is tho first theator over
buflt without stairs to tho balcony.
Tho incllno starts from the main
entranco and roaches tho noso of tho
bnlcony Just back of the boxes, Instead
of tho old way, whero the stairs enter
at tho rear of tho balcony, making
persons having scats at the front of
the balcony walk up stairs, then down.
Tho grado is only ono inch and one
quarter to the foot, being tho same as
from tho foyer to tho orchestra.
Hatpin In Horse's Tongue.
A horso belonging to a well known
Brower, Mo., man refused to oat his
supper tho othor night. An investiga
tion was mado and It was found that
In somo way the animal had gotten a
hatpin In Its mouth and it wns burled
to a dopth of two Inches In his tongue,
so that it was Impossible for tho horso
to swallow food. Tho pin was removed
and tho animal ate its supper with
apparently no difficulty. From that
time forth tho horso has apparently
suffered no inconvonlonco from tho In
Jury. Draws Oil From Well.
At Cortland, N. Y., Mrs. Lottie
Gutchess' teakettlo would not boll tho
other night when she mado her tea.
After waiting an hour she examined
tho contents of tho kettle and found
It was oil. Sho carefully emptied It
nnd drew another kettleful from tho
well. It appeared to bo oil, too. An
examination of tho well showed thnt
it was nearly filled with oil a good
quality of crudo petroleum.
Peculiar Rain of Mud.
A rain of mud recen'.ly fell In Glar
dlnl, Italy, which dried up tho
plants and spoiled tho crops. Geol
ogists explain this curious downpour
as being of volcanic source, brought
from Africa by tho winds, but savants
say it la a meteoric phenomenon, and
that tho mud comes from other plan
ets. Led In Using Timetables.
Few people know that tho old Boston-Worcester
railroad was tho second
road in tho world to uso a railroad
timetable for operating trains, and was
one of tho first roads to issuo timetables.
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tfANTAM HEN RAI8E8 SNAKES.
Faithful Mother Does Her Duty to Re
markablo Breed.
Sovcral weoks ago ono of tho resl
denta of Smoky Hollow found thir
teen adder's cggB under a decayed
stump, and, placing thorn under a
bantam hen, awaited results. In duo
tlmo tho clucking mother hatched out
thirteen strlpod adders. The brood
was different from the downy darlings
which sho had previously reared, but
tho faithful bantam accepted her trust,
and did tho best sho could under tho
circumstances,
Sovcral of tho strango brood fell a
proy to the family cat and others ro
codod from civilization and took to tho
Woods, but six of thorn aro atllt follow
ing tho puzalod bantam about tho
promises In tho daytlmo and nt night
sleeping in tho strnw nost in which
thoy were hatched. Tno wriggling
brood havo becomo aufflclontly domos
tlcatod to respond to tho clucking of
their fostor mother. Nunda (N. Y.)
Dispatch In Now York Herald.
A PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS.
Unable to Account for Canals on tho
Planet Mars.
Tho canals on Mars first awoko sci
entists to tho possibility of art and
not naturo cutting thoso enormous
channola which toloscopcs of many
years ago wero unablo to detect. Tho
moro thcso canals aro studied, tho
moro Irresistibly ono is forced to tho
conclusion that they havo been
planned and oxocuted by somo raco
of living beings with powers far ex
ceeding thnt of man, or with machin
ery of such stupendous strength and
capacity that tho mind staggers In
contemplating what It has accom
plished. Imagine a vast network of
Tho Planet Mars,
canals sixty miles wldo and thou
sands of mllos In length, crossing all
tho great contlnontB, without turning
aBido for any obstacle of mountain
or Bca, and tho magnitude of thoso
works may bo realized.
Grant tnat civilization In a million,
years or so further advanced on Mars
than it la hero, and think what
thought and invention must have ac
complished thoro! Of course, tho
name that wo glvo tho planot must bo
peculiarly Inappropriate, for war can
not havo lifted Its dreadful bannor
thoro for thousands upon thousands
of years.
ROBIN'S NEST MADE OF LACE.
Woman Misses Her Valuables and
Finds a Bird the Thief.
A Mrs. Nowton, who llvos In Center
street, put two fine laco collars out on
tho lawn In front of hor houso to
dry a fow days ago. When sho wont
to get them an hour lator thoy wero
gono. Sho was suro nobody stolo
them, because sho was sitting besldo
a window at tho front of tho houso
at tho tlmo and would havo seen any
body entering tho yard. Tho next day
she put another collar out and
watched. A robin flew down from an
applo treo near by and carried off
the collar. An investigation was mado
and the other collars woro found wov
en Into tho bird's nest In a crotch of
tho apple treo. Thero was also a
small laco handkerchief In the nest
Tho bird that was doing tho "fine-art"
nost building and Its mato set up a big
outcry and pecked flercoly at tho man
In the tree when tho nest was being
pulled down. Goneseo (N. Y.) Dis
patch In Detroit News-Tribune.
An Invitation.
? -
"Come, Birdie, come, and stay with
me."
THINK PRINCE RUDOLPH LIVES.
People of Croatia Refuse to Believe
Him Dead.
Tho people of Croatia have a strango
superstition concerning tho lato Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria, who. It will
bo remembered, died In such sad cir
cumstances at Meyerllng in 1889.
Thoy bellevo that ho ia still allvoj
but that ho Is hidden somowhero by
hla enemies, and, as they are now
almost in a stato of revolution against
Hungary, of which they form a part,
they havo Just send a petition to Em
peror Francis Joseph, asking him to
mako tho prince their ban, or ruler.
Tho poor emperor, who was terribly
afflicted by tho loss of his only son, is
much shocked by tho request, but
nothing will persuade tho Croats that
tho prince is not alte, and that he
would not go and bo their ban It ki
enemies would let him. Sketch.
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