Feb. 4, 1897
THE NEUHASKA INDEPENDENT
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By Captain RALPH DAVIS.
Copyright, 1886, by ths Author.
CHAPTER XIV.
WE r.r ACH AN ISLAND.
"The Great Australian Bight," as it is
called, is an indentation in the soutii
coast of Australia off what is knpwn
as Nuyt's. Land. Fifty miles off the
coast is an island of about 250 acres
in extent called Victoria island. . The
fact that we had been spoken by only
one vessel since, the mutineers took pos
session, and that no others had even
been sighted as far as we knew, satisfied
as in the cabin that the ship was drift
ing into the bight. There was not a set
tlement on that coast at the time, while
the natives were extremely hostile, and
little was known of them. Being, as
we figured, out of the track of all sail
ing craft and the breeze still holding
from the south, it seemed certain that
the end of our drifting must be a wreck
on a reef or the beach.
At 10 o'clock on the morning of the
fourth day after being spoken by the
Englishman we heard the mutineers
cheering and congratulating, and we
were satisfied that either the coast or an
island was in sight In the course of
half an hour a white flag was raised
over the barricade, and Ben Johnson
appeared in sight to say :
'f aptain Clark, there is an island in
. sight to the north. We can make out an
opening in the reef, but unless there is
a hand at the wheel to steer her through
the bark must strike and be wrecked."
"Well, what do yon want to do?"
asked the captain.
"There's a bay inside the reef. If
you'll come out and take charge, we'll
obey orders and bring her to anchor in
the bay. Then we'll go ashore and give
you full possession. It'B either that or
all hands will go to the devil when she
strikes the reef, and we are not ready
to give up yet "
The proposition was taken under ad
visement and discussed.' There might be
a trick in it, but we had more conn
dence in ourselves than before. By leav
ing the women to watch at the loopholes
below there would be a respectable force
of us together on deck in front of the
cabin to meet any rush with a volley.
If the bark struck the jagged coral reef,
even with that small sea on, she would
grind to pieces in an hour, and there
must be a frightful loss of life. It was
decided to work the craft into the bay.
Vhe cabin doors were opened, and every
man of us stepped out on deck prepared
for what might happen. Then the cap
tain said to Johnson :
"If there is any trick in this, we are
prepared for you. Let a sailor come aft
and take the wheel. Now put two or
three ethers at work to overhaul the
ground tackle."
He then gavo the necessary orders for
making sail and wearing the bark
around nntil her nose pointed at the
opening in the reef. The Island loomed
up right before us, and had there been a
delay of 15 minutes we should have
been on the reef. The mutineers obeyed
all orders with alacrity, and such of
them as came aft of the barricade were
respectful in look and demeanor. The
opening in the reef was not above 40
feet wide, and had we not been exactly
opposite it we should never have got in.
As it was, we had to go it blind, as the
caying is, no one knowing what depth
of water we should find. What seemed
to be a river, but what was really a
long and narrow bay, ran into the cen
ter of the island for a distance of half a
mile.
There were two turns or elbows in
tne bay, but once over the reef the bark
glided along until she was at length
brought up in 30 feet of water near the
head of the bay. On the west of us
were a steep shore and deep water. On
the east there was a clear strip of beach,
with the water gradually deepening.
When the anchor was down, the bark
would swing to the tide safely enough,
but with no more than 60 feet to spare.
In other words, the distance between
"And what do you want in return for
tliat fine speech?"
ber stern and the shore was only a bis
cuit toss. When the anchor was down
and everything aloft made snug, John
son mounted the barricade and said:
"Captain, we are going ashore. We
gave you the best fight we could, but
were beaten. If you want to take the
bark out, none of us will raise a hand
in opposition. If you want to come
ashore, no one shall molest you. In tho
end a man-of-war will come for us, but
meanwhile we shall enjoy ourselves."
"And what do you want in return for
that fine speech?" asked the captain,
feeling assured that it prefaoed a re
quest of some sort
"Well, by your kind leave, we want
a share of the provisions, as we shall
get tired of fruit after awhile. We also
want two or three old sails for tents,
an ax or two, matches and some cook
ing utensils. We'll have to have a boat
to set the things and our wounded men
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ashore, but we'll return her."
The captain was so glad to have them
out of the uliip, even if they were to re
main in sight on land, that be readily
granted the request. Four of them were
permitted to lower ono of the quarter
boats, and for the next tnrco hours sue
was uBed to convey the rascals and their
dunnage across the strip of water. They
were allowed to help themselves with
liberal hand, but it was stuff which was
of no account to ns without our prison
ers. It was after 3 o'clock in the afternoon
before the last man departed, and then
the boat was given a push from the
beach and sent back to us. Among the
gang were eight wounded men, their
injuries having been inflicted when the
women fired through the loopholes.
Perhaps they had extracted some of the
shot from their legs, but enough was
left to cause them to curse and groan as
they limped about the decks. The bar
ricade was almost disposed of in loading
the boat, and half an hour after the
last trip wo had a clear deck, and the
women and children were out for an
airing. The passengers were for having
the captain trip the anchor and sail at
once, but he gathered them around him
and said :
"Here are but three sailors of us. Not
one of you men can go aloft or take a
trick at the wheel I don't say that wo
might not navigate the bark down to
Adelaide; but, with the season just
changing and bad weather coming on,
we'd be taking strong risks. The Eng
lishman who spoke us thoroughly un
derstood our peril and can be depended
on to report us. If we hang right here
for a fortnight, we'll see a man-of-war
in the offing. We can't recapture the
convicts,, but we can remain here as a
guard and help hunt 'em down later on
Besides, if we were to sail away, who
can tell but that some craft may be
driven here by stress of weather o
come in answer to a signal, and she'd
certainly fall into the hands of the
gang? We have a clear ship now and
can afford to wait
The women murmured somewhat.
but the men cheerfully acquiesced in
the conclusion, and when things were
once more shipshape aboard no one
could have suspected what we had pass
ed through. Not one of the mutineers
bad addressod a word to us or given
anybody a black look during the trans
fer, and as fast as they landed on the
beach they disappeared into the thick
forest, presumably to look for a site on
which to make a camp. Tho passengers
thought we had done with them for
good, but the rest of us had a diflerent
feeling. As night was coming on (Jap
tain Clark came to me on the bows of
the bark, where I was overhauling things
a bit, and said:
"Ralph, I don't like thewayohn-
aon talked, nor I don't like the soft,
silky way the mutineers acted as they
went ashore. The change was too ' great
and too sudden not to have some triok
back of it. What do you think?"
"Well, sir, I agree with you as to
there being something back of it Those
fellows have not given up the fight yet
You don't hear them shouting and
laughing ashore, and if one of ns was
to creep through the woods I'm think
ing he'd find them gathered in a circle
about Johnson and new plans being dis
cussed. Rest assured, sir, they'll make
some move to get possession of the bark,
and it won't be long delayed either."
"Just my idea, and we must make
ready for them!
The cabin was left just as we had de
fended it, but we battened down the
hatches and sen tHes so that there was
no getting below. When we came to in
j meet the convict's cages, we found
nothing of them left. They had been
completely torn away and the material
I flung overboard. Had we succeeded in
I putting down the mutiny we should
I have had no place in which to safely
i hold our prisoners. The fellows had
: made a fearful waste cf such provisions
I and stuff as they could get at, and as
we looked about we wondered that they
. had not fired or scuttled the ship in
j their desperation.
When night came down, a double
watch was set on board. Haskell and
Miss Foster took the bow and Mary
and I the stern, and the men who lay
down in the cabin had their weapons
handy for a sudden call. It was a quiet,
starlight night, and tho beach was so
near that had any of tho mutineers ap
peared,we should have rnado them out
From 8 o'clock to midnight I wa3
alone with Mary for tho first time since
I came to know her name. There was
no doubt of my love for her, and she
had as good as told mo that she returned
it, and yet I must tell you that I was
more upset for the first hour than when
the mutineers rushed us. As a matter
of fact, we were no company for each
other, and if the dear girl hadn't cor
rectly judged my feelings and felt sorry
for me I doubt if I should have opened
my mouth during the four hours' watch.
I never yet heard of a man who was
content with simply knowing that a
woman loved him. Ho wants to assure
her of his love and exact a promise of
marriage. That's exactly what I wanted
to do to tell Mary that I thought she
was the dearest, nicest girl in all this
world and ask her to make me the
proudest, happiest man by giving me
faer hand in marriage. She could read
my mind, tho witch, and she kept me
on the ragged edge for an hour or more
before she suddenly asked :
"Mr. Tompkins," do you think we
shall get safe away?"
"I am hopeful of it now," I replied,
"but a few days ago it was 'Ralph'
instead of 'Mr. Tompkins.' "
"And it's 'Ralph' now," she said as
she gave me her hand to hold, but
looked away in that coy, shy way which
we expect to find in a girl, and which
we consider such a charm.
"I'll speak to the father tomorrow,"
I said as soon as I dared trust my voice
to say anything, and as she did not pull
her hand away I knew that it was all
right between ns, and I felt that joyful
that I wanted to stand up and shout.
'As to how people make love on land
I have no knowledge but I'm telling
you in my plain, sailorlike way how
we made love on shipboard in that bit of
bay, with mayhap half a hundred desper
ate villains hiddnu in the bushes not a
stone's throw away. There was no vow
ing that I was ready to die for her, and
she didn't deoUre that I was tho bravest
and noblest man on earth. I kuow I
loved her with all my heart and bad
she not loved me she would not have
placed her future in my keeping. We
just quietly accepted each other for bet
ter or for worse, and if I can t weave
much of a romance into it you'll have
to accept it without
.We heard nothing whatever of tho
mutineers during my watch or up to
midnight. We had been relieved about
half an hour, and the ship was as quiet
as a graveyard, when the tide began to
come in. This swung the head 01 tne
bark to the sea and her stern within
about 15 yards of the bushes. If the
mutineers had a plan for that night, it
would soon unfold itself. The idea was
that they would creep down through
the bushes to the edge of the water and
quietly swim off to us, hoping to find
our vigilance relaxed. A dozen strokes
would bring. a swimmer alongside.
There were four persons in the second
watch, as there had been in the first, .
and while they kept eyes and ears open
they suddenly discovered three monster
sharks moving lazily around the vessel.
They were of the speoies known as the
hammer head, and there is no fiercer nor
more disgusting inhabitant of the sea
unless it be the octopus. By and by
the sharks remained stationary, as if on
guard. I said the four people were
watching and listening, and yet but for
those sharks a terrible calamity might
have happened. Some 15 or 20 of the
mutineers took to the water to board the
barb over her bows, and whatever noise
they might have made was drowned in
the grating of her chain cable in the
iron hawse hole as she swung to the
tide. But none of them reached her.
The first one had not yet laid hands on
her chains when one of the sharks
seized him, and three seconds later the
other two had selected victims. There
were three fearful shrieks, a chorus of
shouts and a great splashing, and all
was over before any one from the cabin
could get on deck. The surviving mu
tineers stood on the beach and cursed
and hurled showers of stones aboard,
but a shot or two fired above their heads
dispersed them. Three of them had met
an awful fate, but no one bad any pity
to waste on them. On the contrary, we
earnestly hoped that one of them might
turn out to have been Ben Johnson, the
leader and the most desperate man of
all
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THEIR MISTAKE.
They Tried to Put the Horse to Bed With
rlllow and Coven.
One of the best known society wo
men of Philadelphia spends the spring
months at her country place, a few
miles out of the city. Soon after open'
iner the country ' house her husband
arrived from the west, where he had
been on business, bringing with him a
magnificent saddle horse, which he
gave to his daughter Eleanor for a
birthday present Not long afterward
the gentleman was again called away
from this part of the country, and that
same afternoon his wife discharged the
coachman for being impudent When
evening came on Mrs. Stellcart was in
a quandary. She knew that the horse
had to be taken care of, and she didn't
know exactly how to do it so she said
to her daughter:
'Eleanor, we've got to put Toag to
bed. I recollect hearing your father
tell John to be very careful to bed him
down nicely, so we must do as well as
we can."
They went to the stable, and took
from the carriage-house the cushion
of a wagon seat and a couple of horse
blankets. Then they repaired to the
stall in which the Kentucky saddle
horse was rapidly growing hungry,
likewise weary. Mrs. Stellcart and
Eleanor placed the cushion where they
supposed the horse would use it for a
pillow, and managed to arrange one of
the blankets to serve in lieu of a mat
tress. They then tried to coax Toag
to lie down, in order that they might
throw the other blanket over him and
tuck it in nicely about his heels. But
from some unaccountable reason, Ton?
would not lie down. They tried to
coax him and throw him off his feet
but the greatly astonished horse at last
protested so strongly that the ladies
gave up their work.
Their house is situated half a mile
from any other, and they did not know
what to do. But at last a bright idea
struck Eleanor, and she with her
mother hurried to the front gate and
stayed there until two men passed by.
These were called; the situation was
explained to them. They didn't un
derstand it at first but Mrs. Stellcart
finally ' burst into teav-s and bepged
them to come in and put the horse to
bed. The men willingly walked to the
stable and looked at the stall for a
moment Then they leaned against
tho wall and laughed until they were
nearly exhausted. Toag went to bed
as usual that night but he didn't
sleep on the cushion of a wagon seat
and covered with blankets.
Every day since this occurrence
those two men have made it a point to
walk past Mrs. Stellcart's residence,
stopping by the front gate long enough
to roar with laughter ,90 she could
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WHAT'9 A PATTERAN?
The Ujpj Method of Leaving a Trail
Visible Only to Their Fellows.
From the New York Journal. "You
don't know what a patteran is," In
quired surprlsedly of the group about
him a man at the Authors' club the
other evening. "Why, that was one of
the first thlngt. I learned when I began
to study the gypsies. The patteran, or
patrin, is wh-it the Romanies use to in
dicate the route taken by a party of
their people journeying from place to
place. It has a great many forms
which would pass unnoticed by those
not initiated. In some instances a clod
of turf, lying at the intersecting point
of four cross roads, is sufficient to tell
a straggler from the gypsy camp the
direction in which his friends have
gone. Only last summer, out In Penn
slyvania, I came across it many times.
Once I remember just because some
school children had kicked the clod
Into a ditch an old gypsy woman who
had lingered behind to tell a fortune
wasn't able .o find her party for two
days. Seeing the clod at the cross
roads, you know, the straggler will
glance down each of the Jl(TMnt ways
until he see-: a similar sign which
shows him the right one. .
"In every country where there are
gypsies, there you will find the pat
teran among the ZIgeuner of Ger
many, the Zlncall of Spain, the Czljan
yok of Hungary, all those roving tribes
which are descended from the original
wanderers from the east and there is
very little doubt that the patteran
dates very far .back in the history of
their race. Sometimes it takes the
shape of a cross, scratched on the
ground with a sharpened stick, the
longer line of the figure being drawn
in the direction in which the trail leads.
A cleft branch or two sticks so placed
as to point In a certain direction are also
used. Stones, leaves and handfuls of
grass are occasionally -employed, and
many of the gypsy families formerly
had their own particular signs, under
stood by none but themselves. By fol
lowing these patterans or trails the
first gypsies on their way to Europe
never lost each other. It is strange
that this curious practice of the Rom
anies has so long escaped the attention
of the romanclst; but it is only com
paratively recently that a writer of de
tective stories made his astute man
hunter track a gypsy desperado by
means of the ratteran."
In the Wrong Town.
She looked like a woman from a re
mote tier of townships and the way in
which she was dressed tended to con
firm that impression. She seemed In
a world of trouble and approached the
floor-walker.
"See here, mister," she said nervous
ly, "I've been robbed In this here
store. Joeh 'lowed me to come down
here to do my shoppin' 'cause it would
be a savin'. I had $30 five minutes
ago, an' now I hain't got a cent O,
dear! I'm more'n a hundred miles
from hum with no way to get back an'
nothln' to eat;" and the woman buried
her face In a handkerchief, while
threatening to collapse.
"You'd better report the matter to
the police at once. Or I'll attend to
that for you."
"Not on your tin-type," she respond
ed quickly. "I'm no Rube." Then she
gathered herself and between artis
tically executed sobs asked that she
he lent enough to keep her over night
and take her back to Josh.
But she had tipped her hand. The
floor-walker led her back to the office
and in the long bag within her dress
skirt was found a choice collection of
dry goods. She made the air sul
phurous and at the police station pro
claimed herself a "Jay" for leaving
Chicago, where there seems to be a
special immunity for the transgressor.
Coster Flov-er GIrlg.
"Violets! Lovely violets! Penny a
bunch!" That'e what the flower girls
in the Strand and in Piccadilly are
calling out just now, thrusting the
redolent flowers at you as you pass.
These girls are typical coster girls,
thin, scrawny, anaemic, with little
curls plastered to the . temples and
unwashed, colorless faces. They make,
the lucky ones, a shilling a day. The
finest sold here are, of course, to be
had In the shops and come from Nice.
The violets sold In the streets are
raised in Surrey. I saw a flower girl
go up to a dnde the other night and
offer a bunch for sale. He answered
her urgent appeal with a vacant stare.
"My high," answered the girl, "we
are a-gettlng proud! Sal, Cockey, we
wouldn't take your last penny from
you for the world! Run along, little
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Her Accomplishment.
Two of three young women who are
Interested in art were discussing the
other.
"Did you ever see anything like the
color of her cheeks?"
"And yet some men admire them. One
said to me the other evening that they
lcoked just like peaches."
"The idea! What did you answer?"
"I said that he was probably right;
that Mamie was noted for being good
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Punctured.
Tommy had been suffering from a
lame back for a day or two and his
mother bought a porous plaster for the
same and prepared to adjust it. As
the eyes of little Mabel fell upon the
punctured square she exclaimed: ' "Oh,
mamma! What are all the. holes for?"
"I know," Interjected Tommy;
"they're for lettin the pain out"
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The most quarrelsome creature In
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jnhnO-lf. Pendemon, Iowa. tctltl:K to
the !lll of Tr. Copelnnd A Shepard In
rurlna Ln Grippe and. Lumj IH-eimet. '
"I was taken sick last January with la
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medicines I could Ret, but my cough be
came worse rlRht alow?. I was sick seven
weeks and still falling when Drs. Copeland
and Shepard put me upon treatment. They
cured me without the least trouble. I
have enjoyed better health and done more
work since my treatment than I had been
able to do for seven years."
HOME DOCTORING
v Knnsaa School Ttacher Cured
Through tho Mails.
Mrs. Lottie Scrltchfield, Havensvllle,
Vns., writes with enthusiasm of the Home
Treatment. Her letter Is dated October 38,
lMrt. and runs as follows: ,
"Prs. Copeland & Shepard. Omaha : This
testimony was due you something like a
year ago, and I now give it with a great
setipe of thankfulness. After teaching
gi hool several years I found I was a vic
tim of catarrh In Its most offensive form.
I tried several doctors and numerous rem
edies with little benefit. Then I took a
course with you and found it a perfect
"ure. 'My genepfel health has been splen
did since you dlschaged me as cured In the
summer of '95. Please send a symptom
blank to fill out for my mother. I hops
you can cure her also."
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